Personal Jurisdiction and Tribal Courts after Walden and Bauman: The Inadvertent Impact of Supreme Court Jurisdictional Decisions on Indian Country

36 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2015 Last revised: 7 Mar 2024

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Grant Christensen

Stetson University - College of Law

Date Written: September 28, 2015

Abstract

In 2014 the United States Supreme Court added two new cases to the canon on the meaning of due process in the context of personal jurisdiction. These cases clarified the metes and bounds of specific and general personal jurisdiction. However, decisions that fit within the state and federal court system do not always easily have cross applications to tribal courts – which nonetheless are obliged to extend due process rights via the Indian Civil Rights Act. This article takes the Supreme Court’s 2014 decisions and discusses their potential application to tribal courts and their use within Indian Country.

Keywords: tribal court, personal jurisdiction, walden, bauman, general jurisdiction, specific jurisdiction, indian law, tribal law

JEL Classification: K10, K40

Suggested Citation

Christensen, Grant, Personal Jurisdiction and Tribal Courts after Walden and Bauman: The Inadvertent Impact of Supreme Court Jurisdictional Decisions on Indian Country (September 28, 2015). 68 Rutgers L. Rev. 1365 (2016), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2666395 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2666395

Grant Christensen (Contact Author)

Stetson University - College of Law ( email )

1401 61st Street South
Gulfport, FL 33707
United States

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