Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes v. Lake County Board of Commissioners et al

  1. April 16, 2020

    Montana Tribes Win Dispute Over Access To Planned RV Park

    A Montana county and local landowner cannot construct a proposed access road to a planned 60-lot lakeside RV resort because the road would run through land that belongs to tribes and falls outside county jurisdiction, a Montana federal judge ordered Thursday.

  2. November 21, 2019

    Tribes Ruled Immune From Countersuit In Mont. Land Dispute

    A Montana county and a local landowner cannot countersue the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in a land access dispute because the tribes have sovereign immunity, a Montana federal judge has ruled.

  3. November 07, 2019

    Tribes Want Win Over County, Developer In Land Access Fight

    A group of Montana tribes has asked a federal court for a win in a suit seeking to stop an RV resort owner's construction of access roads to her proposed development, saying the property the street crosses remains in trust for the tribes.

  4. July 30, 2019

    County Pushes Back At Mont. Tribes In Land Access Fight

    County commissioners sued by a group of Montana tribes seeking to stop an RV resort owner's construction of access roads to her proposed development through tribal lands slammed their argument in federal court Monday that they have sovereign immunity, saying the tribes are trying to have it both ways.

  5. July 09, 2019

    Mont. Tribes Try To Ditch Counterclaims In Land Access Fight

    A group of Montana tribes told a federal court Monday they have sovereign immunity from counterclaims brought by county commissioners and the owner of a proposed RV resort development in the tribes' suit seeking to stop construction of access roads, which they allege would cross tribal land.