Legal Opinion
Elliott v. White Mountain Apache Tribal Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 14, 2009No. 07-15041PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
A tribal court’s jurisdiction over nonmembers of the tribe is limited. As a matter of comity, however, federal courts generally decline to entertain challenges to a tribal court’s jurisdiction until the tribal court has had a full opportunity to rule on its own jurisdiction. Finding that no exception to that general rule applies here, the district court held that exhaustion of tribal court remedies is required. On de novo review, Boozer v. Wilder, 381 F.3d 931, 934 (9th Cir.2004), we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
In June 2002, Plaintiff Valinda Jo Elliott, a…
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