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There is no such thing as a tribal court in US law. If you are referring to a Native American reservation, they are sovereign land, and not subject to any United States jurisdiction, except where crime crosses the border into US soil.

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No, not if its a matter of state law. It must be a federal issue for a federal court to overturn an issue already decided by a state court.

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