Legal Opinion
White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Smith Plumbing Company, Inc., Doing Business as White Mountain Supply Company, an Arizona Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 2, 1988No. 87-2340PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Chief Judge:
Smith Plumbing Company, Inc. appeals a preliminary injunction against proceeding with a state court trial against an insurer who wrote a performance bond for White Mountain Apache Tribe’s tribal development enterprise.
White Mountain Apache Tribe is a federally recognized Indian tribe organized pursuant to § 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 25 U.S.C. § 476 et seq. (1982), and occupies a reservation in east central Arizona known as the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
The White Mountain Apache Housing Authority was created by the Tribe in 1963 pursuant to a…
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