Legal Opinion
Craig Wellman, D/B/A Craig Wellman Construction v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 23, 1987No. 86-3919PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The question presented on this appeal is whether a federal district court may exercise jurisdiction over a civil suit brought by an Indian concerning a contract with a non-Indian corporation for work on tribal lands, without first requiring the Indian to exhaust his remedies in tribal court.
Wellman, a member of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe, lives on the Blackfeet Reservation. He operates Craig Wellman Construction. Chevron is incorporated in Pennsylvania. It has an oil and gas lease from the Blackfeet Tribe for its drilling operations on the reservation, and the…
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