Source: http://www.childrenslegalrightsjournal.com/childrenslegalrightsjournal/volume_37_issue_1?pg=34
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 20:40:54+00:00

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152 Del. Tribal Bus. Comm. v. Weeks, 430 U.S. 73, 83–85 (1977) (Congress’s “plenary” power to legislate with regard to Indian tribes does not trump due process); cf. Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1, 17 (1957) (Congress could not subject civilian U.S. citizens to military court jurisdiction pursuant to its authority to regulate the military forces); Walden v. Fiore, 134 S. Ct. 1115 (2014) (applying purposeful availment / minimum contacts analysis in drug trafficking case even though Congress can prohibit drug trafficking under the Interstate Commerce Clause). While jurisdictional limits may be looser in criminal law, see, e.g., United States v. Ali, 718 F.3d 929, 944 (D.C. Cir. 2013), domestic child welfare cases are civil law matters quintessentially subject to state court jurisdiction—and to its limits.
153 See Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714, 734 (1877); Schaffer v. Heitner, 433 U.S. 186, 208 n. 30 (1977).
154 See In re J.D.M.C., 739 N.W.2d 796, 813 (S.D. 2007); State ex rel. W.A., 63 P.3d 607, 616 (Utah 2002) (status exception enables state courts to determine interests of children residing in that state, and in order to prevent putting children in legal limbo); McCaffery v. Green, 931 P.2d 407, 411 (Alaska 1997) (“the ties and relations between a parent and child create ties and relations between the parent and the state in which the child lives sufficient to satisfy notions of fairness in exercising personal jurisdiction.”).
155 Consider, for instance, Renteria v. Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, No. 2:16-CV-1685-MCE-AC, 2016 WL 4597612 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 2, 2016). That case involved three children whose parents were killed in a car accident, and whose custody then was disputed by surviving family members. Neither the children nor the parents ever lived on reservation, or even in the same county as the reservation, yet the Miwok tribal court asserted jurisdiction to order the children placed with a tribal member.

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