| 25A838 |
United States v. Jason Robert Hopson |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Application |
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felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Major Crimes Act permits federal district courts to enter judgments of conviction for simple assault when a jury finds an Indian defendant… |
| 25A415 |
Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
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federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific … |
| 25-382 |
Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Pending |
Amici (4)Relisted (4) |
indian-country mcgirt-precedent reservation-rights state-taxation tax-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether Oklahoma may tax the income of a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen who lives and works within the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation that McGirt v. Ok… |
| 25-5582 |
Paul Curtis Pemberton v. Michael Miller, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction false-imprisonment indian-country treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether Oklahoma Criminal Statutes May Be Enforced Against An Enrolled Member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tribe within the Indian Country, and whet… |
| 25-30 |
Marvin Keith Stitt v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
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congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-country indian-law tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a state may exercise criminal jurisdiction over an Indian for conduct in Indian country absent a valid congressional grant of authority |
| 23-7220 |
Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1153 congressional-amendment federal-jurisdiction felony-assault indian-country major-crimes-act minor statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal government have jurisdiction to prosecute a state felony assault on a minor under the Major Crimes Act (MCA), after Congress amended … |
| 23-6205 |
Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense |
Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri… |
| 22-796 |
Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
assimilative-crimes-act federal-prosecution general-crimes-act indian-country state-law-offenses treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Assimilative Crimes Act applies to Indian country |
| 21-7678 |
Robert Elton v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to inv… |
| 21-1102 |
Oklahoma v. Shaynna Lauren Sims |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-08 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism indian-country native-american-rights non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a state has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-1058 |
Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute nonIndians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-7030 |
Darrin Lynn Pickens v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure enabling-act federal-jurisdiction federal-land-restrictions indian-country state-enabling-act state-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction |
Does the State of Oklahoma have subject matter jurisdiction over any person who commits an offense within the boundaries of Indian Country? |
| 21-1009 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Taylor Bragg |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-18 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-959 |
Oklahoma v. Joshua Lee Purdom |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-960 |
Oklahoma v. Jessy Shay Bailey |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-v-oklahoma tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-914 |
Oklahoma v. Richard Ray Roth |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-prosecution due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian non-indian-defendants state-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-772 |
Oklahoma v. Stewart Wayne Coffman |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-643 |
Oklahoma v. Bryce Miller |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process indian-country mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights overruling-precedent |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-516 |
Justin Haggerty v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
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18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the 'interracial' nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense |
| 21-485 |
Oklahoma v. Shawn Lee McDaniel |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-451 |
Oklahoma v. Shawn Thomas Jones |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-prosecution state-authority tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-429 |
Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (22)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-265 |
Oklahoma v. Erik Sherney Williams |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-24 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-v-oklahoma tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-186 |
Oklahoma v. Shaun Michael Bosse |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2) |
criminal-procedure indian-country jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent non-indian-crimes postconviction-relief procedural-bars prosecutorial-authority state-prosecution |
Whether a State may impose procedural or equitable bars to postconviction relief on the claim that the State lacked prosecutorial authority because th… |
| 21-5073 |
Brian Adrian Sloan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american native-american-rights racial-classification |
Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled |
| 20-753 |
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect… |
| 20-5203 |
Derrick Ivan Jim v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american-rights united-states-v-antelope |
Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled |
| 19-820 |
John McMahon, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Bernardino County, et al. v. Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
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aboriginal-title appropriation-doctrine barker-v-harvey enabling-act enabling-acts indian-country land-claim secretarial-order united-states-v-title-insurance-trust-co |
Whether the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe's failure to file a land claim under the 1851 Act extinguished its rights to Section 36 conveyed to California for… |
| 19-6428 |
Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-11-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-1151 choctaw-nation congressional-act dependent-indian-community diminishment disestablishment extinguishment indian-country jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries oklahoma reservation reservation-status statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Choctaw Nation's 10,864 square miles located in the south-eastern part of the state of Oklahoma constituted a reservation under 18 USCA 11… |
| 19-5744 |
Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret… |
| 18-9526 |
Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law |
Whether Oklahoma courts can continue to unlawfully exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians accused of major crimes in Indian Country |
| 18-8801 |
Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-04-11 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP |
18-usc-1151 criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-country indian-reservation indian-territory treaty treaty-boundaries tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the boundaries established in the Treaty of February 23, 1867, for the Eight (8) Tribes within the former Indian Territory of northeastern Okl… |
| 18-7033 |
Michael Casey Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether a district court judge can restore lands relinquished by treaty to Native Americans |
| 18-6098 |
Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-09-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (5)IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-subject-matter-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act organic-act prospective-decisions seminole-country seminole-tribe state-waiver-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court clearly established the prospective decisions that Seminole Country written in Congress Organic Act invokes the Major Crimes… |