Seneca v. Seneca
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Hurlbutt, J.
The central issues presented on this appeal are whether Supreme Court has original subject matter jurisdiction concurrent with tribal courts to adjudicate a commercial dispute between two members of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Seneca Nation) and, if so, whether plaintiff must exhaust his remedies in a tribal court before Supreme Court may exercise its subject matter jurisdiction. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that Supreme Court has original concurrent subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate this dispute. We further conclude that the failure to…
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