Legal Opinion
Window Rock Unified School District v. Reeves
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 28, 2017No. 13-16259, 13-16278PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dissent by Judge CHRISTEN
OPINION
FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether it is “colorable or plausible” that a tribal adjudicative forum has jurisdiction over employment-related claims against two public school districts operating schools on leased tribal land. Because the claims arise from conduct on tribal land and implicate no state criminal law enforcement, interests, we conclude that tribal jurisdiction is colorable or plausible under our court’s interpretation of Nevada v. Hicks, 533 U.S. 353, 121 S.Ct. 2304, 150 L.Ed.2d 398 (2001). Well-established exhaustion…
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