Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota, Judicial Code

Dated: [2000]

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Table of Contents

Title 1: Courts

Chapter 1 - Establishment and Operation

Chapter 2 - Jurisdiction

Chapter 3 - Judges


Chapter 4 - Clerk of Court


Chapter 5 - Counsel


Chapter 6 - Contempt of Tribal Court


Chapter 7 - General Court Procedures

Title 2: Rules of Civil Procedure

Rule 1 - Scope of Rules

Rule 2 - Citation


Rule 3 - Commencement of Action and Preliminary Matters; Filing Fee


Rule 4 - Time


Rule 5 - Pleadings, Motions and Orders


Rule 6 - Motions Practice


Rule 7 - General Rules of Pleading


Rule 8 - Form of Pleadings


Rule 9 - Defenses and Objections


Rule 10 - Counterclaim or Crossclaim


Rule 11 - Amendment of Pleadings


Rule 12 - Parties


Rule 13 - Intervention


Rule 14 - Substitution of Parties


Rule 15 - Discovery


Rule 16 - Jury Trials

Rule 17 - Assigning Cases for Trial

Rule 18 - Dismissal of Actions

Rule 19 - Pretrial Meetings

Rule 20 - Consolidation; Separate Trials

Rule 21 - Evidence


Rule 22 - Subpoenas


Rule 23 - Jurors


Rule 24 - Special Verdicts and Interrogatories


Rule 25 - Instructions to the Jury; Arguments


Rule 26 - Motions for Directed Verdict and for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict


Rule 27 - Findings by the Court


Rule 28 - Judgment; Costs


Rule 29 - Default


Rule 30 - Summary Judgment


Rule 31 - Declaratory Judgment


Rule 32 - Entry of Judgment


Rule 33 - New Trials; Amendments of Judgment


Rule 34 - Relief from Judgment or Order


Rule 35 - Harmless Error


Rule 36 - Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment


Rule 37 - Disability or Disqualification of a Judge


Rule 38 - Injunctions


Rule 39 - Extraordinary Writs


Rule 40 - Execution of Judgment


Rule 41 - Appeal


Rule 42 - Appealable Orders


Rule 43 - Ex Parte Communications


Rule 44 - Severability


Rule 45 - Amendment