Congress Cigar Co. v. Canister Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “this case is most properly left to tribal authorities, in whom the discretion over tribal membership determinations is vested”
• explaining that, even if the court had jurisdiction over the plaintiffs' claims pertaining to membership, it would not hear them because the plaintiffs had not exhausted their tribal remedies
• “Indian tribes retain elements of sovereign status . . . . One such aspect of this sovereignty is the authority to determine tribal membership.”
• court is without jurisdiction over tribal dispute even though Secretary of Interior is named defendant, plaintiff alleged Secretary schemed to alter tribe membership rolls and make improper payments to non-members, and case involved federal statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).