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.