United States Ninth Circuit

A Bureau of Indian Affairs road (part of a state highway) constitutes a tribal road, thus a tribal court had jurisdiction to hear a claim for injuries resulting from negligence in allowing a horse to trespass on such a road. Tribe's motion to intervene was properly denied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2001
• Decided 08/14/2002
• Published 08/14/2002

Judges

• BROWNING, Circuit Judge., Before: BROWNING, WALLACE and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven A. Kelly, Lame Deer, MT, for the intervenor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Clarence Belue, Billings, MT, for the defendants-appellants., Gregory G. Murphy, Moulton, Bellingham, Longo & Mather, P.C., Billings, MT, for the plaintiffs-appellees.