Opinion ID: 155684
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Jurisdiction Over Counterclaim

Text: 32 The Tribe argues that the plaintiffs in Pueblo of Santa Ana conceded that the court had jurisdiction to consider the issue of the validity of the compact, but the Tribe in this case is unwilling to make that concession with respect to the State's counterclaim. The plaintiffs' purported concession in Pueblo of Santa Ana is irrelevant. We have an independent duty to satisfy ourselves that we have jurisdiction over a case. Phelps v. Hamilton, 122 F.3d 1309, 1315-16 (10th Cir.1997). We satisfied that duty in Pueblo of Santa Ana, and the same result obtains here. As the district court held, 25 U.S.C. § 2710(7) conferred jurisdiction over the State's counterclaim.