State v. Kokavec

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a tribal court’s determination of its jurisdiction may be challenged in district court
• holding that tribal court remedies are deemed exhausted upon appellate review within the tribal court system
• holding that federal policy supporting tribal self-government “directs a federal court to stay its hand in order to give the tribal court a ‘full opportunity to determine its own jurisdiction’”
• stating that “[exhaustion is required as a matter of comity, not as a jurisdictional prerequisite”
• noting that the tribal appellate courts should initially be permitted to review the tribal trial court’s rulings
• observing that under the Fourteenth Amendment native Americans are citizens of the states in which they reside

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).