Stock West, Inc. v. Confederated Tribes Of The Colville Reservation

873 F.2d 1221 STOCK WEST, INC., an Oregon corporation, Plaintiff/Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION; Colville Reservation; Colville Business Council; Colville Tribal Enterprise Corporation, and; Colville Indian Precision Pine Corporation, Defendants/Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Nos. 87-4123, 87-4119. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 12, 1989. Decided April 20, 1989. Michael Taylor, Nespelem, Wash., for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees. Barbee B. Lyon and John H. Boone, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Before WRIGHT, TANG and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges. TANG, Circuit Judge: 1 Stock West, Inc. contracted with two Colville tribal entities to construct and later manage a sawmill on the Colville reservation. The tribe claimed that Stock West failed to perform its contractual duties and brought an action in tribal court. Stock West filed a demand for arbitration in tribal court pursuant to terms of the contracts. The tribal court ruled that it had jurisdiction, and ruled also that since the…