Thlopthlocco Tribal Town v. Stidham

How courts have described this case

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

• stating without deciding that federal law allows a sovereign to withdraw an immunity waiver in litigation that the sovereign initiated
• “A court has the discretion to either dismiss or stay proceedings in such matters pending tribal court exhaustion.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[Abatement of this action is preferable to dismissal pending exhaustion of tribal court remedies.”
• addressing sovereign immunity defense before Tribal exhaustion doctrine
• abating appeal pending tribal court remedies
• describing Montana as “federal common law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).