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Article: Samson Cree Trial Decision: 365 days of trial end in disappointment for Samson Cree.(aboriginal law)(Victor Buffalo v. Her Majesty the Queen)
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- April 1, 2006
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On Friday, December 5, 2005, Justice Teitelbaum of the Federal Court (Trial Division) rendered his decision in Victor Buffalo v. Her Majesty the Queen, Docket Number T-2022-89. The court docket number itself tells quite a tale, the "89" means that the case was originally filed in the Federal Court in 1989. By my math that's 16 years from the start of the lawsuit to trial judgment. Along the way, having started out simple enough, it got complicated, and in the end (although the trial judgment is 368 pages), it got simple again.
A long story needs to start with some history: history of the Cree people in Alberta and some recent judicial history. Both had major ...