Legal Opinion
Nevada v. Hicks
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 2001No. 99-1994PublishedCited by 416 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
This case presents the question whether a tribal court may assert jurisdiction over civil claims against state officials who entered tribal land to execute a search warrant against a tribe member suspected of having violated state law outside the reservation.
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Respondent Hicks1 is one of about 900 members of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribes of western Nevada. He re*356sides on the Tribes’ reservation of approximately 8,000 acres, established by federal statute in 1908, ch. 53, 35 Stat. 85. In 1990 Hicks came under suspicion of having killed, off the reservation, a California bighorn sheep, a…
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