Mary Jane WILSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas David MARCHINGTON; Inland Empire Shows, Inc., Defendants-Appellants

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• holding that a federal court may decline to recognize a tribal judgment if it “conflicts with another final judgment that is entitled to recognition”
• holding that the tribal court lacked jurisdiction over a case involving a member plaintiff and a nonmember defendant
• holding that \federal courts must neither recognize nor enforce tribal judgments if: (1) the tribal court did not have both personal and subject matter jurisdiction; or (2) the defendant was not afforded due process of law\
• concluding that evidence that a party lacked “access to appeal or review” would “support a conclusion that the legal system was one whose judgments are not entitled to recognition” (emphasis added
• concluding “that the principles of comity, not full faith and credit, govern whether a district court should recognize and enforce a tribal court judgment”
• holding that “federal courts must neither recognize nor enforce tribal judgments if: (1) the tribal court did not have both personal and subject matter jurisdiction; or (2) the defendant was not afforded due process of law”

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