Gardner v. Wilkins

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

TERRENCE L. O’BRIEN, United States Circuit Judge.

We here consider Edson Gardner’s two pro se appeals. In the first appeal, No. 12-4156, he challenges the district court’s dismissal of his complaint to enjoin Utah from collecting taxes from him because he lives and works on Indian land. The second appeal, No. 12-4158, is from the dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which he names as defendant the judge who fined him for a speeding ticket received while driving on Indian land.

Litigation regarding Gardner’s Indian status is a road…