Navajo Supreme Court Accepts Dismissal of Tribal Court Suit against Public School; Criticizes Federal Court over Jurisdiction Opinion

Here is the opinion in Hasgood v. Cedar Unified School District.

The court’s syllabus:

 The Court grants the parties’ stipulated dismissal but strongly questions the basis of a federal court’s decision in a local school board personnel matter, which lends itself to be read as excluding all state-run schools on the reservation from tribal regulatory and adjudicative jurisdiction.

One thought on “Navajo Supreme Court Accepts Dismissal of Tribal Court Suit against Public School; Criticizes Federal Court over Jurisdiction Opinion

  1. alex skibine May 12, 2011 / 9:50 am

    It is sad that the federal district court decided to expand on the San Juan Tenth circuit decision which itself greatly extended the Hicks rationale to new situations. Sadly, the interests of Indian tribes in the San Juan litigation were not represented as this was a case brought by quasi indigents private parties. The San Juan case should have never been appealed to the Circuit in the first place.

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