~ THE TRADITIONAL COURT OF EQUITY FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF ORIGINAL PEOPLES’ BANDS, TRIBES, CLANS AND COMMUNITIES IN NORTH AMERICA ~ Treaty of Camp Holmes, 1835 (7 Stat.474); Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868 (15 Stats. 655) ~ Mailing Address: 1. P O Box 186, Swanton, Indian country Ohio [43558] 2. P O Box 35, Coleville, Indian country California [96107] Clerks of the Court : Tel: 301-455.5965 / 202-847-5570 (Washington D.C.); Tel: 780-717-8370 (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada):; Tel: 402-403-1788 (Toledo, Ohio); Email:
[email protected] Website: www.scripturalaw.org
COURTESY COPIES TO: 1. Tracy Toulou Director, Office of Tribal Justice U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 2. U.S. Senator John Hoeven, Chair, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 838 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHETHER PUTATIVE DEFENDANTS HAVE VIOLATED FEDERAL INDIAN LAW BY WITHHOLDING DEPOSITORS’ FUNDS FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME FOR UNKNOWN REASONS Cause Number NALJC/Stripe/TWoR/November 2017 1A 1
Complainants: Native American Law & Justice Center and several hundred depositors Putative defendants: 1. Patrick Collison in his capacity as Chief Executive Officer Stripe 185 Berry Street, Suite 550 San Francisco, Indian Country California 94107 2. William Gaybrick in his capacity as Chief Financial Officer Stripe 185 Berry Street, Suite 550 San Francisco, Indian Country California 94107 3. Jon Zieger, General Counsel Stripe 185 Berry Street, Suite 550 San Francisco, Indian Country California 94107
FACTS AND BACKGROUND: 1. This Tribal court has received a Petition from the Native American
Law & Justice Center (“NALJC”) asserting that the putative defendants are withholding approximately 136,350 Singapore dollars in their accounts until February 2018 ostensibly “to protect the depositors’ money.” 2. The depositors assert that their reason and intention to send the funds
to NALJC is to take advantage of an online training course dealing with Tribal Law, Trusts and Tribal Finance. 3. Depositors and NALJC believe that the putative defendants are
withholding their money so that the putative defendants’ balance sheets look prosperous and profitable for their own benefit and advantage to the detriment of the depositors and NALJC.
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4. There is no evidence, proof or facts that the putative defendants,
depositors and NALJC mutually agreed that the putative defendants shall withhold the depositors’ funds for any period of time. 5. Putative defendants violate federal Indian law when they embark on a
frolic of their own without recourse to federal Indian law. 6. Putative defendants may be using these depositors’ funds to take
advantage of the credit and deposit multiplier effect as outlined and explained in Barron’s Dictionary of Finance & Investment Terms to the detriment and disadvantage of the depositors. 7. Putative defendants also apparently failed to make the deposits
totaling 16,033.82 SGD of depositors’ funds even though the data shown in our Stripe website account says it was done. None of the 16,033.82 SGD has shown up in the OCBC SG account. 8. Complaintants and putative defendants entered into an Agreement for
services on May 7, 2017. APPLICABLE LAW: 1. NALJC operates and functions as a Section 17 tribal corporation as
contemplated under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (Howard-Wheeler Act); Public Law 73-383, 48 Sat. 984, 25 United States Code ch. 14 subch. V, 461 et seq.; 25 United States Code § 1301, §450n and 18 United States Code § 1151. 2. Inherent and inalienable tribal sovereignty is contemplated under
Treaty law, Article VI, sec. 2, United States Constitution (The Supremacy Clause).
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RELIEF SOUGHT 1. That the putative defendants either deposit all the withheld and
misplaced funds within seven working days to NALJC’s account in Singapore or refund all such funds to the depositors within seven working days. SO ORDERED THIS 24th day of November 2017
Judge Te Whetu o Rongo CERTIFICATE OF MAILING I, Thomas Widlar, Clerk of the Tribal Court, have this 26th day of November 2017 caused to be dispatched by certified mail through the United States Postal Service a copy of the ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE to the putative defendants cited herein.
___________________ Thomas Widlar
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