by News Staff | Feb 1, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The Napoles family and interested tribal members gathered at the Bishop Paiute Tribe administration building Tuesday to hear a skyped Tribal Court session addressing a land assignment issue that has dragged on for more than 15 years. The Tribe contends...
by News Staff | Apr 3, 2017 | General Misc. Stories
Press release from Rick Napoles Bishop, CA- For the second time, Bishop Paiute Tribal Court Judge Bill Kockenmeister dismissed trespass citations brought by the Bishop Paiute Tribal Council against tribal members of the Warlie, Williams and Napoles families. This is...
by News Staff | Jan 9, 2017 | General Misc. Stories
Press release Bishop, CA- On December 27, 2016, tribal members of the Napoles and Williams families filed a Petition for Habeas Corpus in the U.S. District Court Eastern District, Fresno Division against Bishop Paiute Tribal Council and Tribal Court Judge Bill...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2016 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The descendants of Ida Warlie have spent more than 16 years pulling together the paper trail that appears, to a layman’s eye, to lead to the family’s rights to two disputed lots identified by the Bishop Paiute Tribal Council as necessary for economic...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2016 | General Misc. Stories
(Updated with corrected dismissal) By Deb Murphy Tribal Judge Bill Kockenmeister, at the request of the Bishop Paiute Tribal Council, issued a restraining order against members of the Warlie family, requiring the family remove fencing, livestock and a storage...