( January 2, 2024, 12:06 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied an application filed by the Ute Indian Tribe asking the court to stay a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judgment that said that a Utah federal judge did not err in finding that the tribe used arbitration proceedings to intimidate a potential future witness in one of a series of disputes among the tribe, one of its former employees and an independent contractor....