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43defa5f7683709c | opinion | us | Fort Peck Tribes v. LaFromboise |
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
GARY M. BEAUDRY, Chief Justice.
Upon review of the Notice of Appeal filed with this court on January 29, 1997, this court finds the basis of appeal fails to cite a question of law. Pursuant to Title II, C.C.O.J. Section 202, this court shall not set aside any factual determinations of the Trib... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342698 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1998-11-25T00:00:00 | {
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930988881d1c1383 | opinion | us | Quanimptewa v. Hopi Tribe |
*291
OPINION AND ORDER
Glorianna Quanimptewa asks this court to overturn her conviction for aiding and abetting an assault and battery, based upon 1) being found guilty as a “principal” without being found guilty of the underlying offense; 2) the vagueness of the term “the Tribe” in the statutory definition ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342709 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-hopiappct | 1997-11-21T00:00:00 | {
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d506fb0f71dc3574 | opinion | us | Poleahla v. Hopi Tribe |
OPINION AND ORDER 1
This appeal of a revocation of probation calls into question the application of rules governing time limits on appeals. The appellants appeal was not filed within the proscribed time period.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Appellant, Adrian Poleahla, was convicted on February 4, 198... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342702 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-hopiappct | 1997-03-28T00:00:00 | {
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e09fcbf449b424b5 | opinion | us | Village of Mishongnovi v. Humeyestewa |
OPINION AND ORDER
This case presents the issue of whether federal standing doctrine applies in Hopi Tribal Court in a case involving a dispute over who should rightfully control a bank account held in the name of the Village of Mishongnovi. Appellant and Respondents each allege that they are the rightful gover... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342710 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-hopiappct | 1998-03-20T00:00:00 | {
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b7df95de33419880 | opinion | us | Poleahla v. Hopi Tribe |
OPINION AND ORDER 1
This appeal concerns the ability of a criminal defendant to waive his right to counsel and the procedural requirements of such a waiver. The common law of the Hopi Tribe is applied to the appellant’s waiver of counsel at a criminal arraignment, and the waiver found to be lacking.
FACTUAL ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342703 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-hopiappct | 1997-03-28T00:00:00 | {
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e6c9a14b356afd1c | opinion | us | Polingyouma v. Laban |
OPINION AND ORDER
This appeal decides whether joint custody of a child after divorce with equal periods of physical custody by each parent violates Hopi custom or tradition.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Appellant Barbara Polingyouma and Ap-pellee Vernon Laban are both members of the Hopi Tribe. They w... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342706 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-hopiappct | 1997-03-31T00:00:00 | {
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2e33aff7ace8d4c8 | opinion | us | Headdress v. Boxer |
OPINION
GARY M. BEAUDRY, Chief Justice.
COMES NOW the Fort Peck Tribal Court of Appeals on its own and issues the following opinion. It is the finding of this Court that the underlying action arose as a result of the Tribal Court denying lone Headdress’s petition for a continued restraining order against Annette... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342683 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-09-05T00:00:00 | {
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92f31f5bbed1b047 | opinion | us | Bird v. Frazer Education Ass'n |
Upon Petition for Review in Civil No. 95-3-022 filed by Patricia Bird on or about June 27, 1995. Being advised of the premises herein and after showing Patricia Bird several months to obtain an attorney or a lay advocate in this matter, the Fort Peck Court of Appeals issues the following:
FACTS
1. This Appeal is... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342685 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-09-12T00:00:00 | {
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9f550784f96e30c5 | opinion | us | Babby ex rel. O'Connor v. Babby |
*117
ORDER
GARY P. SULLIVAN, Acting Chief-Justice.
COMES NOW, the Fort Peck Court of Appeals and upon appellant’s “Motion Requesting Reconsideration and Dismissal of Order dated September 24, 1997”, orders the following;
1. The Motion Requesting Reconsideration and Dismissal of Order is denied.
The Cou... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342687 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-10-17T00:00:00 | {
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1b086e3ab5d9bb85 | opinion | us | Fort Peck Tribes v. Bighorn |
OPINION
FACTS
The facts of this case indicate that on March 9, 1997, Officer Elizabeth Grey Bear of the Fort Peck Tribal Police, observed James Bighorn driving east on the Indian Highway South of Poplar, Montana. Officer Grey Bear followed Mr. Bighorn for about a mile from the point of her first view of the susp... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342688 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-11-05T00:00:00 | {
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65d64b076fa56873 | opinion | us | Buckles v. Fort Peck Tribes |
ORDER
Upon “Request for Summary Judgment” In the above entitled action filed by Morris Buckles, by and through his Counsel of Record, Barry C. Bighorn Sr., Public Defender, the Court makes the following:
PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On June JO, 1997 the Appellant, Morris Buckles, was arraigned in Tribal Court and... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342689 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-11-17T00:00:00 | {
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74610ef2b0c1446f | opinion | us | Fort Peck Housing Authority v. Iceman |
OPINION
FACTS
The facts in this case indicated that Ramona Iceman is a Tribal member who resides in Poplar, Montana. On November 1, 1989 she entered into a lease with the Fort Peck Housing Authority for Unit 14-01 located in Poplar, Montana.
On June 18, 1993, Ramona Iceman plead guilty to three counts of Distr... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342690 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1997-12-31T00:00:00 | {
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e1590284453e683b | opinion | us | Fort Peck Tribes v. Morales |
OPINION
PROCEDURAL HISTORY AND OVERVIEW
CERAFIN JOHN MORALES, JR.
(hereafter “MORALES” or defendant) is a member of the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Council and was charged, as a result of an incident occurring during a Tribal Council meeting, with violating Title III Fort Peck CCOJ Section 407a 1 in a com... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9342691 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-ftpeckctapp | 1998-01-27T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
73d17d587376d855 | opinion | us | Begay v. Brown |
ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL
7 NTC Sec. 801(b) requires the Chief Justice to decide whether there is probable cause to grant an appeal. This is an appeal from a forcible entry and detainer action in which the trial court granted a default judgment.
This case arises out of the divorce of Irene B. Brown (formerly Begay... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9308857 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-navajoctapp | 1982-08-06T00:00:00 | {
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"opinion_type": "020lead",
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} | |
541478199b1f2e8e | opinion | us | Cleveland v. Navajo Nation |
ORDER
This is an appeal from the determination of the Window Rock District Court as to the ownership of stray cattle, as provided in 3 NTC Sec. 1306. This appeal has been brought by two claimants who have made arguments in support of their appeal which are broad and wholly inadequate for the purpose of determining... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9308863 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-navajoctapp | 1982-08-20T00:00:00 | {
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5eb3a4e8ad6554a3 | opinion | us | Nez v. Bradley |
ORDER
This order is made upon the motion of 18 appellants, who are members of the Navajo labor force and parties to proceedings before the Navajo Division of Equal Opportunity and Employment. The motion asks for equitable relief under 7 NTC Sec. 303, which permits the Court of Appeals to issue any writ or order wh... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9308869 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-navajoctapp | 1982-09-01T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
e394b1bc0f8e735e | opinion | us | Nez v. Bradley |
OPINION AND ORDER
I. THE CASE BEFORE THE COURT
This ruling is made on a substituted motion for equitable relief made by the appellants and a motion to dismiss appeal made by the appellees. This appeal was filed the afternoon of August 31, 1982, and the court denied an initial motion for equitable relief pending ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9308870 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-navajoctapp | 1982-09-03T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
2171a172a2875b86 | opinion | us | Naswood v. Foremost Financial Services |
OPINION
FACTUAL BACKDROP FOR THE CASE
This case presents the question of the proper service of process and the duties of court-appointed process servers.
In November of 1979 Foremost Financial Services Corporation (Foremost) filed suit to repossess Janett Naswood's mobile home. After the complaint was filed an... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9308874 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | tribal-navajoctapp | 1982-09-14T00:00:00 | {
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Tribal Courts Case Law
Code & tools: github.com/docketx — legal-scrambler pseudonymises a case file on your own hardware before a frontier model sees it; claude-for-legal is the Claude Code plugin (
docketx-open-law) that loads these datasets and checks citations against them.
Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.
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Full text of 2,205 Tribal Courts appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (42 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
cherokee, cherokeeapp, cherokeetribct, cheyrsiouxctapp, colvctapp, coquct, echerkokee, echerokeect, ftmcdowctapp, ftmcdowell, ftpeckctapp, ftpecktrialct, grrondect, grrondectapp, grtravbandct, grtravbandctapp, hochunk, hochunkct, hopiappct, leechojibtr, lrbottawact, lrbottawactapp, moheganct, moheganctapp, moheganelders, mohegangct, mohegangctapp, navajo, navajochildct, navajoctapp, navajofamct, odawactapp, oneidactapp, oneidatrialct, sacfoxdistct, sacfoxsupct, salishctapp, shoaraphotr, swinomishappct, swinomishtr, tulalipctapp, webchippewatr.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 d161df316a22c803d0141e63a567ba22f784a97c69aa18594059e81796a4067a (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 1,702 documents (77.2%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 490 (22.2%) carry 200-1,999, and 13
(0.6%) are under 200 characters. The short ones are real records, not errors: certiorari
denials, one-line orders, and judgment entries. They are kept deliberately (min_chars = 1)
so this is the complete public record rather than a filtered subset. Filter on len(text) if you want
only substantive opinions.
Format
Rows follow docketx record v1 (one opinion per line): id, doc_type, jurisdiction, title,
text, source, license, retrieved_at, plus citation, court, date, and extra
(CourtListener opinion/cluster ids, opinion type). The same format is used across every
docketx dataset.
Provenance and license
Judicial opinions are edicts of government: uncopyrightable works of the public domain (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This packaging is released under CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export (2026-06-30), Free Law Project — https://free.law. This dataset redistributes public-domain court text; it adds no annotation and asserts no rights.
Load it
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-tribal")
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