Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc. Ronnie Long Lila Long, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Amicus Curiae-Amicus on Behalf Of

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

The Plains Commerce Bank (bank) brought this declaratory judgment action in the federal district court against Ronnie and Lila Long and the Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc. (Long Company), seeking to have a tribal judgment of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals declared null and void. That judgment upheld a jury verdict in the Longs’ favor on their claim that the bank had discriminated against them as Indians and tribal members. The bank now argues that the tribal courts lacked jurisdiction over the Longs’ discrimination claim and that it was denied…