Smith v. Moffett

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, in recognition of Congress's intent, the Supreme Court \assiduously advocate]» federal abstention in favor of tribal courts\
• finding the tribal exhaustion requirement to not be “a mere defense to be raised or waived by the parties.”
• “The fact that Smith apparently has not yet presented his case to a tribal court does not diminish the comity considerations present in this case.”
• “concerns of comity do not present a jurisdictional bar”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).