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2004: CABAZON BAND OF MISSION INDIANS v Smith

Through its suit, the Tribe seeks a determination that vehicles operated by its Public Safety Department are "authorized emergency vehicles" permitted to use and display emergency light bars while traveling on public roads between the non contiguous portions of the Tribe's reservation. Before the Tribe's suit, Defendants repeatedly stopped and cited the Tribe's police officers for violating California's Vehicle Code whenever the officers traveled on non reservation roads to respond to emergency calls from different portions of the reservation.

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