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Affiliated Tribes Vs. Wold Engineering

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 29, 1984

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  8. Affiliated Tribes v. Wold
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  9. Engineering - 467 U.S. 138 (1984) U.S. Supreme Court Affiliated Tribes v. Wold
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  10. Engineering, 467 U.S. 138 (1984) Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation v. Wold
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  11. Constitution. The court rejected petitioner's argument that the jurisdiction that it had recognized in Vermillion v. Spotted
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  12. Tribe seeks, rather than contests, state court jurisdiction, and the non-Indian party is in opposition. Cf. Williams v. Lee
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  13. Stat. 1032. See City of New Town v. United
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  14. that Indian territories were beyond the legislative and judicial jurisdiction of state governments. Worcester v. Georgia
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  15. Williams v. Lee
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  16. were substantially eliminated in 1953 with the enactment of the aforementioned Pub.L. 280. See generally Washington v. Yakima
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  17. civil jurisdiction over Indian country only in cases involving interests in Indian lands themselves. Vermillion v. Spotted
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  18. White Eagle v. Dorgan
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  19. and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The court rejected this argument, adhering instead to its conclusion in Nelson v. Dubois
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  20. The court relied on Washington v. Yakima
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  21. this Court has departed from the rigid demarcation of state and tribal authority laid down in 1832 in Worcester v. Georgia
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  22. Ibid., quoting Williams v. Lee
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  23. be preempted by incompatible federal law. White Mountain, 448 U.S. at 448 U. S. 142 . Accord, New Mexico v. Mescalero
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  24. Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. v. Bureau
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  25. McClanahan v. Arizona
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  26. against Indians or over claims between Indians, it intruded impermissibly on tribal self-governance. See Fisher v. District
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  27. Williams v. Lee
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  28. courts over claims by Indians against non-Indians, even when those claims arose in Indian country. See McClanahan v. Arizona
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  29. Poafpybitty v. Skelly
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  30. The interests implicated in such cases are very different from those present in Williams v. Lee
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  31. where a non-Indian sued an Indian in state court for debts incurred in Indian country, or in Fisher v. District
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  32. in this Court's past decisions about state jurisdiction over Indian affairs or activities on Indian lands. Arizona v. San
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  33. are to be liberally construed, with doubtful expressions being resolved in favor of the Indians. See, e.g., Bryan v. Itasca
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  34. Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United
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  35. was intended to facilitate, rather than to impede, the transfer of jurisdictional authority to the States. Washington v. Yakima
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  36. Bryan v. Itasca
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  37. Similarly, while Pub.L. 280 authorized States to assume partial, rather than full, civil jurisdiction, see Washington v. Yakima
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  38. to revise the North Dakota Supreme Court's interpretation of state jurisdictional law. Only last Term, in Arizona v. San
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  39. to avoid a perceived conflict with federal statutory or constitutional requirements. See, e.g., United Air Lines, Inc. v. Mahin
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  40. State Tax Comm'n v. Van
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  41. Red Cross Line v. Atlantic
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  42. San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon
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  43. in the belief that federal law poses no barrier to the exercise of state authority. See, e.g., Standard Oil Co. v. Johnson
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  44. principles that have come to govern our calculation of adequate and independent state grounds. In Michigan v. Long
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  45. Dakota Supreme Court's judgment means that we do not face a question of our own jurisdiction, see Standard Oil Co. v. Johnson
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  46. in Gourneau v. Smith
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  47. the policy of construing state statutes to avoid potential state and federal constitutional problems, see, e.g., State v. Kottenbroch
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  48. Paluck v. Board
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  49. Grace Lutheran Church v. North
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  50. North American Coal Corp. v. Huber
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