Mealey's (December 10, 2020, 7:04 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in some respects when applying two exceptions to Indian tribes’ lack of jurisdiction over nontribal members in a dispute over consolidated tribes’ collection of hazardous waste storage fees from a private company, “the court’s central conclusion that [the company] was subject to tribal jurisdiction was likely correct,” the United States says in a Dec. 9 amicus curiae brief filed at the court’s request (FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, No. 19-1143, U.S. Sup.)....