PREVIEW—United States v. Cooley: What Will Happen to the Thinnest Blue Line?
Abstract
The Supreme Court of the United States ( Supreme Court ) will hear oral arguments in this matter on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. This case presents the narrow issue of whether a tribal police officer has the authority to investigate and detain a non-Indian on a public right-of-way within a reservation for a suspected violation of state or federal law. The lower courts, holding that tribes have no such authority, granted James Cooley’s motion to suppress evidence. The Supreme Court must decide whether the lower courts erred in so deciding. While the issue before the Supreme Court is itself narrow, it has broad implications- text
- United States v. Cooley
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Ninth Circuit
- Oral Argument
- Fourth Amendment
- Indian Civil Rights Act
- ICRA
- 25 U.S.C. § 1302
- 25 U.S.C. § 1302(a)(2)
- search
- seizure
- investigate
- detain
- Terry stop
- welfare check
- arrest
- custodial arrest
- tribal sovereignty
- inherent sovereignty
- tribal police
- tribal jurisdiction
- non-Indian
- non-member
- Indian
- Indian law
- Indian country
- reservation
- Montana
- Crow Treaty
- Crow Reservation
- Crow Tribe
- James Cooley
- Officer James Saylor
- Crow Tribe Police Department
- tribal police
- criminal jurisdiction
- safety
- public rights-of-way
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law
- Law Enforcement and Corrections
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Last time updated on 23/03/2021
This paper was published in University of Montana School of Law.
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