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5 results

UNITED STATES v. LARA, BILLY JO (39820)

    Order dated: 09/30/03
    Docket number: 03-107
    Action:
        The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.

UNITED STATES v. LARA, BILLY JO (39820)

    Order dated: 11/03/03
    Docket number: 03-107
    Action:
        The motion of respondent for appointment of counsel is granted. Alexander F. Reichert, Esquire, of Grand Forks, North Dakota, is appointed to serve as counsel for the respondent in this case.

UNITED STATES v. LARA, BILLY JO (39820)

    Order dated: 12/01/03
    Docket number: 03-107
    Action:
        The motion of the Solicitor General to dispense with printing the joint appendix is granted.

UNITED STATES v. LARA, BILLY JO (39820)

    Order dated: 01/09/04
    Docket number: 03-107
    Action:
        The motion of National Congress of American Indians, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument is denied. CERTIORARI GRANTED

UNITED STATES v. LARA, BILLY JO (39820)

    Order dated: 01/26/04
    Docket number: 03-107
    Action:
        The motion of respondent to strike portions of the amici curiae brief on behalf of Eighteen American Indian Tribes, Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe, et al. is denied.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether Section 1301, as amended, of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, 25 U.S.C. 1301, validly restores an Indian tribe's sovereign power to prosecute members of other tribes, such that a federal prosecution following a tribal prosecution for an offense with the same elements is valid under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment.

An opinion has been handed down: