Great American Court Cases | Ex Parte Crow Dog

Legal Citation: 190 U.S. 556 (1883)

Petitioner
Crow Dog of the Sioux Indian Nation

Respondent
United States

Petitioner's Claim
That the U.S. court system does not have jurisdiction over crimes committed within the boundaries of an Indian reservation by one tribal member against another.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
A. J. Plowman

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Samuel F. Phillips, U.S. Solicitor General

Justices for the Court
Samuel Blatchford, Joseph P. Bradley, Stephen Johnson Field, Horace Gray, John Marshall Harlan I, Stanley Matthews (writing for the Court), Samuel Freeman Miller, Morrison Remick Waite, William Burnham Woods

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
17 December 1883

Decision
Upheld Crow Dog's claim and overturned...