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Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217 (1959)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217 (1959)
Williams v. Lee No. 39 Argued November 20, 1958 Decided January 12, 1959 358 U.S. 217
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA
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Respondent, who is not an Indian, operates a general store in Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation under a license required by federal statute. He brought this action in an Arizona state court against petitioners, a Navajo Indian and his wife who live on the Reservation, to collect for goods sold to them there on credit. They moved to dismiss on the ground that jurisdiction lay in the tribal court, rather than in the state court.
Held: The motion should have been granted, since the exercise of state jurisdiction in this case would undermine the authority of the tribal courts over Reservation affairs, and hence would infringe on the right of the Indians to govern themselves, which right was recognized by Congress in the Treaty of 1868 with the Navajos, and has never been taken away. Pp. 217-223.
83 Ariz. 241, 319 P.2d 998, reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217 (1959) in 358 U.S. 217 Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CM6A2GNZW1SW2P6.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217 (1959), in 358 U.S. 217, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CM6A2GNZW1SW2P6.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Williams v. Lee, 358 U.S. 217 (1959). cited in 1959, 358 U.S. 217. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CM6A2GNZW1SW2P6.
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