Court Documents
The Tribal Supreme Court Project collects court documents for selected Indian law cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. This page lists the cases before the Court during the October 2004 term. The links below will take you to each case's docket sheet, briefs, and, for select cases, the lower court materials.
October 2004 Term
Cert Granted
- Cherokee v. Leavitt (Docket #02-1472)
- Thompson v. Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (Docket #03-853)
- Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (Docket #03-855)
Cert Denied
- Medicine Blanket v. Rosebud Sioux (04-5163)
- Navajo Nation v. Krystal Energy (04-45)
- South Dakota v. Cummings (04-74)
- Mille Lacs v. Benjamin (04-229)
- Chippewa Trading Co. v. Michael Cox (04-395)
- Drewry v. U.S. (04-5564)
- Vanguilder v. U.S. (04-671)
- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, et al. v. U.S. (04-525)
- Peabody v. Navajo Nation (04-634)
- Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation v. U.S. (04-731)
- US v. Eastern Shoshone Tribe (04-929)
- Blaine County v. U.S. (04-775)
- Shenandoah v. Halbritter (04-803)
- Cholla Ready Mix v. Mendez (04-952)
- Prescott v. Little Six, Inc. (04-1197)
- Bellecourt v. City of Cleveland 04-1248)
- Ackerman v. Edwards (04-1253)
- Hammond, et al. v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho, et al. (04-624)
- Taxpayers of Michigan Against Casinos v. Michigan, et al. (04-581)
- Comstock v. Kennard (04-165)
- Kahawaiolaa v. Norton (04-1041)
Circuit Courts