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LAW   INSTITUTE
THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS
CHAPTER 2. TRIBAL AUTHORITY
DEFINITIONS
SUBCHAPTER 1.      TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY IN GENERAL
§ 16. Constitutional Rights of Persons Under Tribal Jurisdiction
C.A.10, 2022. Com. (a) quot. in sup. (quoting § 16, com. (a), of Prop. Final Draft, 2021, which is now
§ 16, com. (a), of the Official Text). Members of Native American tribe who had been temporarily
banished filed a petition for habeas corpus, alleging that their banishment from the tribal reservation
constituted detention. The district court dismissed petitioners' petition. This court reversed and
remanded, holding that the district court abused its discretion by failing to address the threshold issue of
whether petitioners exhausted their remedies in tribal court. The court explained that, under Restatement
of the Law, The Law of American Indians § 16, Comment a, the subject-matter jurisdiction of federal
courts was limited to actions for habeas corpus relief, and litigants complicated case law on the subject
by frequently attempting to characterize harms purportedly caused by tribal authorities as a form of
detention in order to evade tribal adjudication. Chegup v. Ute Indian Tribe of Uintah and Ouray
Reservation, 28 F.4th 1051, 1063.
SUBCHAPTER 2.      THE POWERS OF INDIAN TRIBES
§ 28. Tribal-Court Exhaustion Rule
C.A.10, 2022. Com. (a) quot. in sup. (quoting § 28, com. (a), of Prop. Final Draft, 2021, which is now
§ 28, com. (a), of the Official Text). Members of Native American tribe who had been temporarily
banished filed a petition for habeas corpus, alleging that their banishment from the tribal reservation
constituted detention. The district court dismissed petitioners' petition. This court reversed and
remanded, holding that the district court abused its discretion by dismissing the petition on the grounds
that temporary banishment did not constitute detention for the purpose of federal statutes, because it
failed to address whether petitioners exhausted their remedies in tribal court. The court explained that
resolving the issue of tribal exhaustion was critical, because, under Restatement of the Law, The Law of
American Indians § 28, Comment a, adjudication of matters that impaired the power of tribal courts
would infringe upon tribal law-making authority, and tribal courts were best qualified to interpret and
apply tribal law. Chegup v. Ute Indian Tribe of Uintah and Ouray Reservation, 28 F.4th 1051, 1070.
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