Benally v. John

This is a jurisdiction case, raising the question of the sovereign authority of the Navajo Nation against that of the United States. The legal question presented is the extent of the exclusive judicial authority of the Courts of the United States and the scope of jurisdictional power of our own courts. More specifically we are dealing with the subject of allotted land within the Navajo Nation, which is allocated and managed by the United States. The policy factors at play are the international law rules that it is the duty of the United States to not intervene in the internal or external…