Nico Roesler has this report in the Santa Fe New Mexican about yesterday’s oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of a Pojoaque tribal police officer, Kevin Schultz, who lost his life while heroically saving a boy from drowning in the Rio Grande.
The officer’s widow is arguing that she and her son are entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits, and that the tribe promised to provide them, but the tribe and its insurance company contend that Officer Schultz was not on duty when he died, and that Mrs. Schultz waited too long to file a claim for benefits.
The Court of Appeals rejected Mrs. Schultz’s claims in an opinion issued last December, based on her failure to file her claim within the one year statute of limitations.
