In the buzz generated by the Exxon Valdez punitive damages decision and the Second Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the last few days of the term, little attention was paid to a very interesting decision regarding the power of Indian tribal courts to adjudicate disputes involving non-Indians.? In Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Co., No 07-411 (June 25, 2008), the Court held that a South Dakota Indian court did not have jurisdiction to adjudicate a discrimination claims concerning a non-Indian bank’s sale of land it owned.
