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Litigation

Apr. 5, 2007

Tribal Courts: The Next Wave of Independence for State Indians

SACRAMENTO - When lawyers occasionally cite California's Rules of Evidence in Judge Anthony Brandenburg's court, he gently admonishes them.

By Linda Rapattoni
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SACRAMENTO - When lawyers occasionally cite California's Rules of Evidence in Judge Anthony Brandenburg's court, he gently admonishes them.
      As a court commissioner for 17 years, Brandenburg is quite familiar with the rules, but in Indian country, they don't apply. Instead, Brandenburg consults a code of one of a dozen tribes whose members app...

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