Bruce H. Lien Co. v. Three Affiliated Tribes

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• holding that the tribal court should first determine the contract’s validity because the “challenge to the document itself ... calls into question all provisions contained therein (including provisions relating to arbitration, sovereign immunity, and federal district court jurisdiction)”
• noting that exhaustion of tribal court remedies is required “in matters related to reservation affairs”
• tribal court to determine in first instance validity of gaming management agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).