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Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. v. Mary Seaworth

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 5, 2019No. 18-1824; 18-1856PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GRASZ, Circuit Judge.

A dispute over the practice of flaring natural gas from oil wells fuels the legal controversy in this case: the scope of Native American tribal court authority over nonmembers. Several members of the MHA Nation sued numerous non-tribal oil and gas companies in MHA tribal court. Those companies operate oil wells on lands within the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation that have been allotted to individual tribe members but are held in trust by the federal government. The tribe members alleged the companies owed royalties from wastefully-flared gas. Some of these companies…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
  3. Santa Clara Pueblo v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  4. Thomas Jefferson University v. ShalalaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  5. Idaho v. Coeur D'Alene Tribe of IdahoSupreme Court of the United States · 1997

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3Cited by29 opinions

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