United States Tenth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiffs-tribe members' suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is proper where the claims involved a purely tribal dispute, and, as a result, the district court did not have jurisdiction to determine whether certain persons were properly appointed to the Kaw Nation Courts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2004
• Published 08/17/2004

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, BRISCOE, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs :  Michael Minnis and David McCullough of Michael Minnis & Associates, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Hunt, Broken Arrow, OK, for Defendant-Appellee Phil Lujan., Michael Salem of Salem Law Offices, Norman, OK, for Defendant-Appellee Guy Munroe.