The Arizona Indian Law website is up! AZ Indian Law is a second website for Brian Utsey, an Arizona Family Law Attorney.
Brian is an exceptional attorney who enjoys the family law side of his practice, but his true love, legally speaking, is American Indian Law.
In researching the site's contents, I learned a lot about how the native tribes were mistreated, legally speaking (and otherwise). Having grown up and spent lots of time in the Midwest and having close Sioux and Chippewa friends, I knew some of the story. But looking at some of the legal history for this site, showed me how much I didn't know.
This site doesn't go into that history, there are a large number of sites that talk about that elsewhere. However, when the site says "Indian Law is complicated", you don't know the half of it. Normally, the law is relatively cut a dry. After hundreds of years, somebody, soemwhere has had a similar case and you just have to point out what precedents the judge should look at in deciding the case. In American Indian Law, for almost any questions you can find two or possibly three precedents - that point in completely opposite directions. Many of them Supreme Court Decisions!
In addition, for outsiders dealing with Tribal courts, precedents may or may not have any bearing. Brian tells of having cases against Indian clients summarily dismissed simply because the contracts involved didn't take into consideration that one side of the argument (his) was subject to tribal protections.
It's a fascinating and complex area of the law, and since Brian Utsey is one of a very limited number of attorneys who focus on this area, I expect you'll be hearing his name in connection with some rather high profile cases at some point in the future.
Let me know what you think of it.Lynn McColley focuses on Small Business Web Site Design, Internet Marketing and Email Marketing Blasts at McColley Marketing Media in Mesa, Arizona. If you would like to improve your results from marketing on the internet, call him at 480-704-4286.
Brian is an exceptional attorney who enjoys the family law side of his practice, but his true love, legally speaking, is American Indian Law.
In researching the site's contents, I learned a lot about how the native tribes were mistreated, legally speaking (and otherwise). Having grown up and spent lots of time in the Midwest and having close Sioux and Chippewa friends, I knew some of the story. But looking at some of the legal history for this site, showed me how much I didn't know.
This site doesn't go into that history, there are a large number of sites that talk about that elsewhere. However, when the site says "Indian Law is complicated", you don't know the half of it. Normally, the law is relatively cut a dry. After hundreds of years, somebody, soemwhere has had a similar case and you just have to point out what precedents the judge should look at in deciding the case. In American Indian Law, for almost any questions you can find two or possibly three precedents - that point in completely opposite directions. Many of them Supreme Court Decisions!
In addition, for outsiders dealing with Tribal courts, precedents may or may not have any bearing. Brian tells of having cases against Indian clients summarily dismissed simply because the contracts involved didn't take into consideration that one side of the argument (his) was subject to tribal protections.
It's a fascinating and complex area of the law, and since Brian Utsey is one of a very limited number of attorneys who focus on this area, I expect you'll be hearing his name in connection with some rather high profile cases at some point in the future.
Let me know what you think of it.Lynn McColley focuses on Small Business Web Site Design, Internet Marketing and Email Marketing Blasts at McColley Marketing Media in Mesa, Arizona. If you would like to improve your results from marketing on the internet, call him at 480-704-4286.
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