Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation v. Wold Engineering, P. C.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1984-05-29

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Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. This litigation presents issues of state-court civil jurisdiction over a claim asserted by an Indian tribe. The case, as it comes to us, is somewhat unusual in a central respect: the Tribe seeks, rather than contests, state-court jurisdiction, and the non-Indian party is in opposition. Cf. Williams v. Lee, <span class="citation" data-"1…

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