U.S. Appeals Court: FALSE IMPRISONMENT.

Dry v. U.S., 235 F.3d 1249 (10th Cir. 2000). Members of an Indian tribe brought a [ss] 1983 and Federal Tort Claims Act against tribal law enforcement officers who allegedly committed torts when arresting them. The district court dismissed the claims and the appeals court affirmed. The appeals court held that city jailers did not violate the constitutional rights of tribal members by detaining them, in accordance with cross-deputization agreements with the tribe, based on the representations of tribal law enforcement officers that offenses had been committed. The court noted that the jailers bad no constitutional duty to question the tribal officers as to their probable cause for arrest, to verify the validity of the grounds for detention under tribal law, or to conduct an independent constitutional or historical analysis to determine whether the tribe's assertion of jurisdiction over the detainees was legitimate. (City of Talihina and City of Clayton, Oklahoma)