Legal Opinion
Azure-Lone Fight v. Cain
District Court, D. North Dakota
Decided May 12, 2004No. A4-04-054PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DISMISSING PETITIONER’S APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF
HOVLAND, Chief Judge.
This action was precipitated by a recent tribal court order granting Donald Decoteau temporary custody of his two minor children. On May 4, 2004, Donna Azure-Lone Fight, the children’s mother, filed a Petition Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody, wherein she challenged the validity of the tribal court’s order on jurisdictional grounds. Since Azure-Lone Fight is challenging an order of a tribal court as opposed to a state court, her petition is more…
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