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To: 2banana
I don't get it, Indians want to be sovereign nations when it comes to building tax free casinos and selling tax free cigarettes but then want to us the US courts when they feel it will benefit them...

The treaties were made freely by the US government. The Indians are citizens. The tort took place off reservation. You sue others in the proper venue. If you sue someone in China before your hometown magistrate, how will you get recompense?

That might help you get it.

10 posted on 01/08/2004 11:34:45 AM PST by Protagoras (When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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To: Protagoras
The treaties were made freely by the US government. The Indians are citizens. The tort took place off reservation. You sue others in the proper venue. If you sue someone in China before your hometown magistrate, how will you get recompense?

That might help you get it.

1. If the Indian nation and the US has a treaty covering "copyrights" and other intellectual property

It might be why they tried this case in an Indian court first:

A tribal judge threw the original case out of tribal court in 1994

But if you are going to have treaties that cover mundane things like intellectual property, you are probably going to have treaties that cover reciprocal taxation, fair cost of defense and such...

That might help you get it.

16 posted on 01/08/2004 11:47:35 AM PST by 2banana
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