Legal Opinion
Brown v. District Court of Seventeenth Judicial District ex rel. County of Blaine
Montana Supreme Court
Decided July 19, 1989No. 88-487PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheehy
*249The United States Supreme Court in Rice, Director, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of California v. Rehner (hereafter Rice v. Rehner) (1983), 463 U.S. 713, 103 S.Ct. 3291, 77 L.Ed.2d 961, decided that Congress, by enacting 18 U.S.C. § 1161, gave states the power to regulate within their borders the possession and sale of liquor by Indian persons in Indian country through the licensing provisions of the states. Our case here answers the further problem: whether such liquor regulation by the states includes the power to enforce state criminal statutes against Indian persons for…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian ReservationSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Crowley v. ChristensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rice v. RehnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- United States v. Larry Burdette JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Lewis v. Department of Human ResourcesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
- Fort Belknap Indian Community v. MazurekCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation v. MazurekCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation v. MontanaDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1992
- State v. SchaeferMontana Supreme Court · 1989
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