December 22, 2023
A Utah tribe and its affiliated corporations asked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Friday for an emergency stay on a mandate requiring them to pay more than $300,000 in attorney fee sanctions while they prepare an appeal.
November 03, 2023
A Utah tribe and its affiliated corporations are asking the Tenth Circuit to stay a mandate requiring $300,000 in attorney fee sanctions from them, saying they intend to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court on the basis of precedent.
October 30, 2023
A split Tenth Circuit declined a Utah tribe's bid for a rehearing seeking to undo the appellate court's ruling that slammed it with $300,000 in attorney fee sanctions for pursuing an arbitration proceeding against a former worker purportedly intended to intimidate a witness.
August 09, 2023
A split Tenth Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's finding Tuesday awarding $330,000 in attorney fee sanctions against the Ute tribe for pursuing an arbitration proceeding against a former worker purportedly intended to intimidate a witness, with a judge writing in a dissent that the lower court's sanctions ruling went too far.
October 14, 2022
Native American leaders in Utah maintain that their tribe should not owe a $330,000 sanctions bill to a pair of former tribal employees, telling the Tenth Circuit that a federal judge who ordered the penalty had blindly accepted claims that it pursued a bad-faith legal case against the men.
July 01, 2022
The Ute Indian Tribe wants to escape a $330,000 sanctions bill it owes to two former employees, denying their claims that it sought arbitration against a past financial consultant in retaliation for his testimony in a labor dispute and calling the penalty a "plain usurpation of power" by a Utah federal judge.