Mealey's (February 27, 2017, 1:14 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California resident in a contract dispute with an Indian tribe is not entitled to have the case heard in federal court based on the bad faith exception to tribal court jurisdiction because a tribal court judge who was allegedly acting in bad faith recused himself and appointed a retired state court judge for the case, a federal judge ruled Feb. 24 (Ames Raymond Acres v. Blue Lake Rancheria, et al., No. 16-cv-05391, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26447)....