| Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians | |
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| Argued Dec. 7, 2015 Decided June 23, 2016 | |
| Full case name | Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC v. the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; the Tribal Court of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; Christopher A. Collins, in his Official Capacity; John Doe, a minor, by and through his parents and next friends, John Doe, Sr. and Jane Doe |
| Docket no. | 13-1496 |
| Citations | 579 U.S. ____ (more) 136 S. Ct. 2159; 195 L. Ed. 2d 637 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Dolgencorp, Inc. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 846 F. Supp. 2d 646 (S.D. Miss. 2011); affirmed, 746 F.3d 167 (5th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 2833 (2015). |
| Holding | |
| Affirmed by an equally divided Court | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Per curiam | |
Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court was asked to determine if an American Indian tribal court had the jurisdiction to hear a civil case involving a non-Indian who operated a Dollar General store on tribal land under a consensual relationship with the tribe. The Court was equally divided, 4–4, and thereby affirmed the decision of the lower court, in this case the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, that the court had jurisdiction.