United States Second Circuit

The tribal exhaustion rule does not compel abstention by a federal court where a non-member asserts state and federal claims and nothing is pending in the tribal court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/26/2001
• Decided 10/03/2001
• Published 10/03/2001

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge:, Before: JACOBS, PARKER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Schneider, Plattsburgh, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Russell D. Barr, Stowe, VT, for Defendants-Appellees.