Comstock Oil & Gas Inc. v. Alabama & Coushatta Indian Tribes of Tex.

ELR Citation: ELR 20029
No(s). 00-40088 (5th Cir. Aug 27, 2001)

The court holds that a Native American tribal court was not created in accordance with federally mandated procedures, that the illegitimately formed tribal court could not exercise jurisdiction over a tribal oil and gas lease dispute, that oil companies, therefore, were not required to exhaust their...