TTEA v. YSLETA DEL SUR PUEBLO

No. 98-50582.

181 F.3d 676 (1999)

TTEA, A Texas Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YSLETA DEL SUR PUEBLO; Jose G. Sierra, Presiding Judge of the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo; Angela R. Luhan, Associate Judge of the Isleta Pueblo; The Tribal Court of the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor F. Poulos, El Paso, TX, Gary M. Zadick, Ugin Alexander Zadick & Higgins, Great Falls, MT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Norman J. Gordon, Russell DeWitt Leachman, Diamond, Rash, Gordon & Jackson, El Paso, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POLITZ, HIGGINBOTHAM and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Today we again take up the long saga of this country's relationship with Indian country, drawing on a body of law more stable than the conflicting shifts in governmental policy on which it lies—but bearing scars of these shifts in its own ambiguities. TTEA, a Texas corporation, seeks to counter rulings of a tribal court in its dispute with the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian Tribe over a contract. We examine the jurisdiction...

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