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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 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 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 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 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 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…