Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota, Judicial Code
Dated: [2000]
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Table of Contents
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 TrialsRule 17 - Assigning Cases for Trial
Rule 18 - Dismissal of ActionsRule 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