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July 2011: Comment on California Courts to Enforce Tribal Court Judgements

The proposed legislation seeks to clarify and simplify the process by which tribal court civil judgments are recognized and enforced in California. Currently, tribal court judgments may be recognized through the provisions of the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1713 –1724).1 Proceeding to obtain enforcement under that act can be lengthy and costly. This proposal would institute a discrete procedure for recognizing and enforcing tribal court civil judgments that would provide swifter recognition of such judgments while applying the principles of comity appropriate to judgments of sovereign tribes throughout the country.

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