Legal Opinion
Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation v. Mark Simonich
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 15, 1994No. 93-35103PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (Tribes) filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Montana challenging Montana’s right to regulate the use of water on the Flathead Reservation. Contemporaneous with this filing, the Tribes filed motions requesting the district court to (1) stay the federal proceedings pursuant to Railroad Comm’n of Texas v. Pullman, 312 U.S. 496, 61 S.Ct. 643, 85 L.Ed. 971 (1941), and (2) reserve their right to litigate their federal claims in federal court pursuant to England…
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