|HOME|OPINIONS|

FORT PECK COURT OF APPEALS
ASSINIBOINE AND SIOUX TRIBES
FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION
POPLAR, MONTANA
*******************************

**********************************
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR REVIEW
**********************************  

This matter comes before the Appeal Court on a Petition for Review of Orders entered by the Fort Peck Tribal Court on December 9, 1991, in case CV-P-857. Copies of said Orders are attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and is by this reference made a part hereof. An Amended Petition for Review was submitted by counsel for Appellants on January 21, 1992.

Appellee, Fort Peck Housing Authority, through counsel, has filed a Response to Amended Petition for Review, requesting that the Petition for Review be summarily denied and the stay pending appeal be lifted.

The Court of Appeals having considered the above submittals and having reviewed the transcript of the hearing before Honorable A.T. Stafne held on November 26, 1991, does hereby make the following Conclusions of Law:

1. The Petition for Review was timely filed and the Court has reviewed Appellant's Amended Petition for Review as to statements in support of the Petition.

2. The Petition and Amended Petition are meritless; our review of the asserted reasons for appeal find same to be without merit and we concur with the Response to Amended Petition for Review as to the merits of the appeal.

FROM THE foregoing: Conclusions of Law, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED;

1. Appellant's Petition for Review is denied as being meritless.

2. The Order of the Tribal Court dated December 9, 199l r is affirmed.

3. Any stay pending appeal is hereby lifted.

DATED this 28th day of February, 1992.

_________________________________
GARY JAMES MELBOURNE, Associate Justice

_________________________________
DEBRA JOHNSON, Associate Justice

|TOP|HOME|OPINIONS|