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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1039 | United States v. Jason Robert Hopson | Tenth Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | federal-criminal-procedure felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act | Whether respondents—Indians charged with felony assault in Indian country under the Major Crimes Act in violation of 18 U.S.C. 113(a)(6) and (8) and 1… | |
| 25A838 | United States v. Jason Robert Hopson | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25A415 | Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-382 | Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission | Oklahoma | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (9) | 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 | 1. a. Whether Oklahoma Criminal Statutes May Be Enforced Against An Enrolled Member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tribe within the Indian Country. If… |
| 25-30 | Marvin Keith Stitt v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-07-09 | Denied | 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, 18 U.S.C. § 13, applies to Indian country—either on its own or through the General Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1152—s… |
| 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 | 1. 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 … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a state has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. If the answer to the first question… |
| 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 non Indians 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 | I. Does the State of oKlahoma have Subject matter Jurisdiction over anY person mho Commits an offense UUithin tlic boundries of Indian CountrY ? Does… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-516 | Justin Haggerty v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | 18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | I. 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, and th… | |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-186 | Oklahoma v. Shaun Michael Bosse | Oklahoma | 2021-08-10 | Granted | Amici (2) | criminal-procedure indian-country jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent non-indian-crimes postconviction-relief procedural-bars prosecutorial-authority state-prosecution | 1. Whether a State may impose procedural or equitable bars to postconviction relief on the claim that the State lacked prosecutorial authority because… |
| 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 because the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153—which transforms certain ac… |
| 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 because the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153—which transforms certain ac… |
| 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 | aboriginal-title appropriation-doctrine barker-v-harvey enabling-act enabling-acts indian-country land-claim secretarial-order united-states-v-title-insurance-trust-co | 1. Under Barker v. Harvey, 181 U.S. 481 (1901) and United States v. Title Insurance & Trust Co., 265 U.S. 472 (1924), did the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe'… | |
| 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 NATIONS 10,864 SQUARE MILES LOCATED IN SOUTH-EASTERN PART OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTED A RESERVATION UNDER 18 USCA 1151 … |
| 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 (10)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, UNDER STATE LAW, CRIMINAL JURISDICTION AS"JUSTICIABLE MATTER" IN INDIAN COUNTRY OVER INDI… |
| 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 Ok… |
| 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 or Not a District Court Judge Can Restor Lands That By TREATY Were Relinquished By Indians to the United States All Claims and Rights They Pos… |
| 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 | Q. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED THE PROSPECTIVE DECISIONS THAT SEMINOLE COUNTRY WRITTEN IN CONGRESS ORGANIC ACT INVOKES THE MAJOR CRI… |