Tribal courts definition

Tribal courts means the Tribe’s trial and appellate courts.
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Tribal courts means the trial level court and appellate level court of the Band.
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Tribal courts means the Band’s trial and appellate courts.
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Examples of Tribal courts in a sentence

  • Eligible applicants include State, local, and Tribal courts (including juvenile courts); Tribal governments; units of local government, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim services programs, including community-based organizations.

  • State and Tribal courts and State and Tribal child-welfare agencies are encouraged to work cooperatively to ensure that dismissal and transfer of information proceeds expeditiously and that the welfare of the Indian child is protected.

  • In several lawsuits to which the United States was not party, defendant mining and milling companies sought to enjoin Tribal courts from asserting jurisdiction in lawsuits claiming harm to Tribal members or their property from radioactivity as a result of mining or milling operations that took place on Indian lands.

  • Tribal courts should…Educate state judges on tribal law and federal Indian law.

  • He provided his view of the barriers to improving safety in Indian Country: lack of funds for Tribal courts, fatigue in applying for discretionary grants because the money does not go where it is needed, high crime rates against Native American women, limited number of police officers, overburdened court systems, and lack of jail space.

  • The FIPs are Federal rules issued by EPA under the Federal CAA, and do not provide any authority for Tribes to useTribal laws to regulate nonmember conduct on any reservation or for Tribes to enforce Tribal law against nonmembers in Tribal courts.

  • Tribal courts regularly see pro se litigants or lay advocates (non- lawyers representing litigants).

  • Tribal courts are not connected to or overseen by the Oregon Judicial Department.

  • After lunch at a random store, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the Union Government division.

  • Tribal courts have jurisdiction over offenses committed by Indians on the Reservation, but the Federal courts have jurisdiction over non-Indians committing any offense on the Reservation and over felonies committed by Indians on the Reservation.


More Definitions of Tribal courts

Tribal courts means the trial court and the appellate court of the Band.
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Tribal courts. (Court) means any judicial or other type of adjudicatory body established by the Bishop Tribal Council.
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Tribal courts means both the trial level court and appellate level court of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.
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Tribal courts means both the trial level court and appellate level court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians.
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Tribal courts means any or all of the courts established by the Pueblo to enforce its tribal laws.
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Tribal courts means any judicial or other type of adjudicatory body recognized by the Tribe, including but not limited to Tribal Trial and Appellate Courts, Courts of Indian Offenses, and the Inter-Tribal Courts of Appeal.
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Related to Tribal courts

  • Tribal Court means a court with jurisdiction over child custody proceedings and that is either a Court of Indian Offenses, a court established and operated under the code of custom of an Indian tribe or any other administrative body of a tribe that is vested with authority over child custody proceedings.

  • Courts means the Ontario Court, the Quebec Court and the BC Court.

  • Trial court means the court or agency from which an appeal or judicial review is taken.

  • New York Courts shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9(d).

  • Delaware Courts shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9(d).

  • BC Court means the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

  • Chosen Courts has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(b).

  • Supreme Court means the North Carolina Supreme Court.

  • Youth court means the court established pursuant to this chapter to hear all proceedings in

  • Ontario Court means the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

  • Special Court means a Court of Session designated as Special Court under sub-section (1) of section 43;

  • Quebec Court means the Superior Court of Quebec.

  • Federal Court means the Federal Court of Australia.

  • New York Court means the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of the State of New York.

  • the Court means the High Court;

  • Competent Court means the Supreme Court of India or any High Court, or any tribunal or any similar judicial or quasi-judicial body that has jurisdiction in relation to issues relating to the Project.

  • Selected Courts has the meaning set forth in Section 4.07.

  • Chosen Court has the meaning assigned in Section 8.5(b).

  • Delaware Court means the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

  • Appellate court means the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, or both, as appropriate.

  • clerk of the court means a clerk of the court appointed in terms of section 13 of the Magistrate’s Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944), and includes an assistant clerk of the court so appointed; (xv)

  • Competent Court of Law means any court or tribunal or any similar judicial or quasi- judicial body in India that has jurisdiction to adjudicate upon issues relating to this Agreement;

  • Juvenile court means the district court of this state.

  • Venue means the premises as delineated and shown edged red in Annex A.

  • Court of competent jurisdiction means a federal court, or a state court that entered an order in a child custody proceeding involving an Indian child, as long as the state court had proper subject matter jurisdiction in accordance with this chapter and the laws of that state, or a tribal court that had or has exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Sec. 1911.

  • Cayman Court means the courts of the Cayman Islands.

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