Federal Parental Kidnapping Law Does Not Apply To Tribes, 8th Circuit Says

(August 18, 2023, 1:39 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA) does not apply to Indian tribes because the law makes no reference to tribes, which enjoy their own sovereignty, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in affirming a trial court’s dismissal of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a father who says his daughter is being unlawfully detained on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation....