Agri West v. Koyama Farms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding state court erred “by sustaining jurisdiction in this action when the ... Tribal Court had previously assumed jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter of the dispute”
• finding state court erred “by sustaining jurisdiction in this action when the . . . Tribal Court had previously assumed jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter of the dispute”
• “when a tribal court asserts jurisdiction over certain causes of action, we defer to that assertion by applying the doctrine of abstention as a matter of comity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).