Tribal Court Decisions

Join Versus Law's Tribal Court Database

Is your court interested in joining the VersusLaw Tribal Court Database? VersusLaw offers the most comprehensive database of Tribal Courts, State, and Federal Appellate court decisions available online. Receive free access to VersusLaw Case Law Research in exchange for sending VersusLaw your court's decisions (See Details). Please take a moment to read the Top Ten reasons for participation listed below.

1. Access. Increased access to tribal court opinions allows cases to be argued before the courts based on the case’s merits.
2. Research precedents. A national database enables your court to research precedents already decided by other tribal courts. Participation with VersusLaw’s Tribal Court Database in turn gives your court unrestricted access to VersusLaw’s U.S. Federal and State appellate court databases.
3. First of its kind. Currently, there are only a limited number of individual Tribal Court websites, and just a few regional tribal court sites. Our tribal court database is the first-ever, electronic compilation of tribal court opinions on a national level.
4. Extensive experience. While the Tribal Court Database might be relatively new (March 30, 2000), VersusLaw already has several years of experience with database management.
5. Individual considerations. VersusLaw will accommodate your tribal court’s needs. VersusLaw is willing to consider any of your court’s concerns when drafting our VersusLaw Publishing Agreement.
6. Privacy. Concerned about protecting the privacy of parties involved in a particular case? VersusLaw will accept opinions with deletion of party names.
7. Non-exclusive. The Cooperative Publishing Agreement is a non-exclusive agreement. VersusLaw asserts no claims to the copyright of your opinions.
8. Limited number of archived opinions? No problem. VersusLaw wants to include tribal courts of all sizes, regardless of the number of opinions you have on record.
9. New and developing courts. The Tribal Court Database has been an invaluable resource for new and developing courts. It affords courts the opportunity to research other opinions - this also gives new courts the ability to integrate their participation with the Tribal Court Database from the start.
10. NAICJA. VersusLaw is developing the Tribal Court Database in cooperation with the National American Indian Court Judges Association. VersusLaw also shares opinions with the Tribal Court Clearinghouse and the National Tribal Justice Resource Center.

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