Utility Company Sues to Be Excused from Exhausting Tribal Remedies at Blackfeet

Here is the complaint in Glacier Electric Coop. Inc. v. Gervais (D. Mont.):

1 Complaint

1-2 Tribal Court Complaint

From the complaint:

The Tribal Court plainly lacks jurisdiction over the Lawsuit because the Tribal Court, and Blackfeet Tribe, lack subject matter and personal jurisdiction over Plaintiffs.

From the tribal court complaint:

A public utility may not use its privileged position, in conjunction with the demand, which it has created, as a weapon to control rates by threatening to discontinue that part of its service, if it does not receive the rate demanded.