UTE INDIAN TRIBE v. STATE OF UTAH

Civ. No. C 75-408.

521 F.Supp. 1072 (1981)

The UTE INDIAN TRIBE, Plaintiff, v. The STATE OF UTAH, defendant in intervention, Duchesne County, a political subdivision of the State of Utah, Uintah County, a political subdivision of the State of Utah, Roosevelt City, a municipal corporation, and Duchesne City, a municipal corporation, Defendants, United States of America, Amicus Curiae, Paradox Production Corporation, a Utah corporation, Amicus Curiae.

United States District Court, D. Utah, C. D.

June 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Boyden, Boyden, Kennedy & Romney, Salt Lake City, Utah, Martin E. Seneca, Jr., Washington, D. C., Larry J. Echohawk, Richard Hill, Scott Pugsley, Salt Lake City, Utah, Daniel H. Israel, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., for plaintiff Ute Indian Tribe.

Dallin W. Jensen, Michael M. Quealy, Denise Dragoo, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant State of Utah.

David L. Wilkinson, Atty. Gen., Richard Dewsnup, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Utah, Clifford L. Ashton, Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants.

Tom G. Tobin, Tobin Law Offices, P. C., Winner, S. D., David Albert Mustone, Washington, D. C., for Duchesne & Uintah Co.

Whitney Hammond, Uintah County Atty., Vernal, Utah, for Uintah County.

Lynn Mitton, Roosevelt City Atty., Roosevelt, Utah, for Roosevelt City.

Francis M. Wikstrom, U. S. Atty., District of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Anita Vogt, Dept. of Interior, Kenneth Marra, Land and Natural Resources Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for U. S. as amicus curiae.

Stewart M. Hanson, Jr., Salt Lake City, Utah, for Paradox Production Corp.

Lance Wilkerson, Duchesne, Utah, Dennis Draney, Roosevelt, Utah, for Duchesne Co.


JENKINS, District Judge.

The Ute Indian Tribe filed a complaint with this Court on October 15, 1975, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief establishing the exterior boundaries of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, defining the force and effect of the Tribe's Law and Order Code within those boundaries, and restraining the defendants from interfering with the enforcement of that Code.1 The Tribe, a federally recognized, sovereign Indian...

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