Legal Opinion
Bird v. Glacier Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 10, 2001No. 99-35162PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Glacier Electric Cooperative, Inc. (“the Co-op”) appeals the district court’s judgment declaring that a judgment for compensatory and punitive damages rendered in the Blackfeet Tribal Court (“tribal court”) is recognizable and enforceable in federal court. We must decide whether a district court may give comity to a tribal court judgment, for purposes of recognition and enforcement, where the closing argument of the successful plaintiff in tribal court included numerous statements encouraging ethnic and racial bias of an all tribal member jury against a…
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