Halftown\u2019s decision<\/a> in February 2020 to bulldoze into oblivion a working day care center, a schoolhouse, and a store controlled by a rival tribal faction that disputed the validity of his leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe destruction of property \u2013 including a day care and schoolhouse \u2013 and significant acts of public violence are serious matters, and they weaken the trust that the Nation\u2019s government can operate at this time in a harmonious manner with the other governments and law enforcement officers that share the same geography as the Nation\u2019s reservation,\u201d wrote the DOI\u2019s Bureau of Indian Affairs in dismissing the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York State\u2019s Cayuga Nation cannot bring a defamation case against the Showtime network and the writers and producers of hit show\u00a0Billions, an appellate court has ruled. The Nation and its tribal chair, Clint Halftown, sued in August 2019 after an episode of Billions depicted a tribe called the \u201cCayuga Iroquois,\u201d whose members participated in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":167571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Cayuga Defamation Case Vs. Showtime's Billions: Dismissal Upheld<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n