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KERR-McGEE CORP. v. FARLEY

Nos. 95-2121, 95-2127.

115 F.3d 1498 (1997)

KERR-McGEE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Cyrus Foote Minerals Corporation; Rio Algom, Ltd.; Umetco Minerals Corporation; Union Carbide Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Kee Tom FARLEY, individually and on behalf of the Estate of Lucy K. Farley; Carmelita Farley Joe; Harold Kady, Sr., individually and on behalf of the Estate of Julia Mae Kady, Defendants-Appellees. KERR-McGEE CORPORATION; Rio Algom, Ltd.; Umetco Minerals Corporation; Union Carbide Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Cyrus Foote Minerals Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kee Tom FARLEY, individually and on behalf of the Estate of Lucy K. Farley; Carmelita Farley Joe; Harold Kady, Sr., individually and on behalf of the Estate of Julia Mae Kady, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Comeau of Carpenter, Comeau, Maldegen, Nixon & Templeman, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Tom Galbraith and R. Neil Taylor, III of Lewis & Roca, Phoenix, Arizona, and Robert N. Hilgendorf, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Plaintiff-Appellant Cyprus Foote Minerals Corporation; Jon J. Indall and Stephen J. Lauer of Carpenter, Comeau, Maldegen, Nixon & Templeman, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Plaintiff-Appellant Kerr-McGee Corporation, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Suzelle M. Smith of Howard and Smith, Los Angeles, California (Cherie V. Daut, Shiprock, New Mexico; Justin R. Melat and Rebecca A. Lorenz of Melat, Pressman, Ezell & Higbie, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her on the brief); and Seth R. Lesser, Richard A. Speirs, and Lisa K. Buckser of Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossmann, L.L.P., New York City, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, LOGAN and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

LUCERO, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the scope of the tribal exhaustion rule in the context of the Price-Anderson Act. Appellants Kerr-McGee and Cyprus Foote Minerals (collectively "Kerr-McGee") filed a claim in the District of New Mexico for a declaratory judgment and preliminary injunction, arguing that the Navajo Tribal Court is without jurisdiction to adjudicate nuclear tort claims against Kerr-McGee. Applying the tribal exhaustion rule, the district court...

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