District Title Ins. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reaching the merits in an action seeking to enforce a tribal award without explaining basis for federal jurisdiction
• applying Marchington to hold that a closing argument in tribal court offended due process
• finding a denial of due process where counsel’s closing statements were “replete” with obvious “appeals to [racial] bias”
• limiting review in civil cases to whether attorney misconduct affected fundamental fairness where the error is alleged for the first time on appeal
• discussing numerous, racially charged comments and imagery likening a contract dispute to a “massacre” of members of the Blackfeet tribe
• “The importance of tribal courts and the dignity we accord their decisions will weigh in favor of comity . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).