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JEFFREDO v. MACARRO

No. 08-55037.

590 F.3d 751 (2009)

Louise Victoria JEFFREDO; Joyce Jean Jeffredo-Ryder; Christopher L. Ryder; Jeremiah S. Ryder; Jonathan B. Ryder; Michael John Jeffredo; Elizabeth Villina Jeffredo; Jackie M. Madariaga; Kelly M. Madariaga; Carrie Madariaga; Lawrence Madariaga; William A. Harris; Sterling Harris; April Harris; Mindy Pheneger; Richard Harris, Petitioners-Appellants. v. Mark A. MACARRO; Donna Barron; Marc Calac; Mark Luker; Andrew Masiel; Russell Butch Murphy; Kenneth Perez; Darlene Azzarelli; Christine Luker, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 22, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Harris and Patrick Romero Guillory, Dolores Park Law Offices, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners-appellants.

Frank Lawrence, Holland and Knight, Los Angeles, CA, and John Schumacher, Law Office of John Schumacher, LLC, Riverton, WY, for the respondents-appellees.

Before: JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges, and CLAUDIA WILKEN, District Judge.

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The Pechanga Band of the Luiseño Mission Indians ("Pechanga Tribe") disenrolled a number of its members ("Appellants") for failing to prove their lineal descent as members of the Tribe. Federal courts generally lack jurisdiction to consider any appeal from the decision of an Indian tribe to disenroll one of its members. See Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49, 72 n. 32, 98 S.Ct. 1670, 56...

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