A letter sent by the U.S. solicitor general’s office alerting the Supreme Court to an error in one of its recent opinions is shedding new light on what happens when the court messes up.
Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben wrote the court on June 30 that its decision in United States v. Bryant misstated the scope of the Indian Major Crimes Act, which was not directly at stake in the case. The dispute involved the relationship between tribal and federal courts in certain criminal cases.
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