Word: navajos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Joseph W. Singer, a professor at Harvard Law School (HLS), if Means loses he will sue the Navajo Nation Supreme Court in federal court, claiming they again that they do not have jurisdiction over...
Means, an Oglala Sioux, is charged by the Navajo Nation Supreme Court with one count of "threatening" and two counts of battery stemming from a 1997 incident with his in-laws...
Means has argued that the Navajo court has no jurisdiction over him because he is from another tribe. He claims that current law--which makes him accountable to the Navajo judicial system because he is an American Indian--is racist and unfair...
Under this ruling, Means would not be subject to Navajo law, because he is not from that tribe...
This law makes Means subject to the jurisdiction of the Navajo judicial system...