Legal Opinion
Strate v. A-1 Contractors
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 28, 1997No. 95-1872PublishedCited by 365 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This case concerns the adjudicatory authority of tribal courts over personal injury actions against defendants who are not tribal members. Specifically, we confront this question: When an accident occurs on a portion of a public highway maintained by the State under a federally granted right-of-way over Indian reservation land, may tribal courts entertain a civil action against an allegedly negligent driver and the driver’s employer, neither of whom is a member of the tribe?
Such cases, we hold, fall within state or federal regulatory and adjudicatory governance; tribal courts may not…
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