The Bishop Paiute Tribal Council, which operates the Paiute Palace Casino, and a tribal court judge, are the targets of a Petition for Habeas Corpus by two families of the tribe, the Naploes and Williams families.
The petition cites unlawful convictions and detaining of the family because they resisted being moved from their land to make room for a casino expansion without due process. In 2013 the general council voted not to expand the casino. Despite that the tribal council went forward with expansion plans, and used tribal police to eject the two families. The following year tribal police cited members of the family repeatedly for trespass on the property.
A tribal judge later backed up the tribal council and upheld the citations.
The families are petitioning the U.S. District Court to discharge all orders preventing the families from living on their land again and to restrict the tribal council and tribal judge from interfering with their use and occupation of the land.
