If cameras were allowed in the Supreme Court, it would have been a Kodak moment. As it was, few spectators were on hand for the first oral argument on the morning of April 14, 2008.
The question before the justices: Do tribal courts have jurisdiction over a dispute between a nontribal bank and an Indian-owned corporation? Halfway into the hearing, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. leaned forward to say he was trying to understand the concept of an “Indian corporation.” With a faint smile he nodded toward his colleagues on the bench. “If Justices Scalia and Alito form a corporation,” he asked, “is that an Italian corporation?”
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