Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez
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santa-clara-pueblo-v-martinez-298-4515158
title:
Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez
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Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978), was a landmark case in the area of federal Indian law involving issues of great importance to the meaning of tribal sovereignty in the contemporary United States. The Supreme Court sustained a law passed by the governing body of the Santa Clara Pueblo that explicitly discriminated on the basis of sex. In so doing, the Court advanced a theory of tribal sovereignty that weighed the interests of tribes sufficient to justify a law that, had it been
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1978 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Pueblo_v._Martinez
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2023-10-19T12:49:37Z
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