United States Fifth Circuit
COMSTOCK OIL & GAS INC. v. ALABAMA & COUSHATTA INDIAN TRIBES OF TEXAS, 00-40088
District courts have jurisdiction under 28 USC 1331 to determine tribal court jurisdiction because exhaustion of remedies is prudential and not jurisdictional.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/27/2001
- Published 08/27/2001
Judges
- CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before POLITZ, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- J. Robert Beatty (argued), Cynthia Keely Timms, Bradley Carroll Weber, William Scott Hastings, April Renee Terry, Locke Liddell & Sapp, Dallas, TX, for Comstock Oil & Gas Inc., Alene Ross Levy, Michael T. Powell (argued), Lynne Liberato, Kent Geoffrey Rutter, Haynes & Boone, Houston, TX, for Oryx Energy Co. and Sun Operating Ltd. Partnership.
- For Appellees:
- Michael D. Sydow, Michael Andrew Hawash, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Houston, TX, Lisa K. Hsiao, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Washington, DC, Ronald Lee Jackson (argued), Russell DeWitt Leachman, Norman J. Gordon, Diamond, Rash, Gordon & Jackson, El Paso, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.