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Final Order and Opinion CASE NO. 2015-CV-0088
An excerpt:
In short, the Tribal Council must follow its own laws, and not conveniently “re-interpret” a Hopi Tribal Council Resolution when the political winds change. Here, not one notion of Hopi fundamental fairness, not one attempt at due process, and not a single attempt to provide notice and an opportunity to be heard can be gleaned from the record and testimony before this Court. If this Court were to endorse and condone this abrogation of Hopi law, then all of the Hopi Tribe, the Hopi people, would suffer a terrible precedent in the Hopi way of life.
This is not to say that Plaintiff cannot be terminated. He does not have a lifetime expectation of employment under any circumstance that may arise. Rather, the Employee Manual must be followed properly as required by the Resolution. Hopi law must be respected. If Tribal Council wishes to remove and terminate Plaintiff’s employment, it must follow the terms of the Resolution that the Hopi Tribal Council, on its own accord, adopted.
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