United States Ninth Circuit

In a habeas petition under the Indian Civil Rights Act, claiming that petitioners' disenrollment by members of the Pechanga Tribal Council was tantamount to an unlawful detention, denial of the petition is affirmed where the tribe did not detain petitioners within the meaning of the Act, and thus, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/17/2009
• Decided 12/22/2009
• Published 12/22/2009

Judges

• N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before: JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges, and CLAUDIA WILKEN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Harris and Patrick Romero Guillory, Dolores Park Law Offices, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frank Lawrence, Holland and Knight, Los Angeles, CA, and John Schumacher, Law Office of John Schumacher, LLC, Riverton, WY, for the respondents-appellees.