Wippert v. BLACKFEET TRIBE, ETC.

The Wipperts appeal a Glacier County District Court judgment that the Blackfeet Tribe is entitled to enforce a tribal court judgment as a matter of comity, and that the Robertsons are entitled to recover certain cattle pasturage fees from the Wipperts. The Wipperts contend that the Tribe cannot enforce its tribal court judgment by filing a notice of that judgment as a lien in the District Court, and that it cannot be tacitly implied that the Wipperts, as assignors of the right to recover the pasturage fees, guaranteed that their assignee would pay those fees. We agree, and hold that a tribal…