The Buffalo Law Review has published, ‘The Power to Tax is the Power to Foreclose: Reuniting Law and Logic in Tribal Immunity from Suit.”
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Wisconsin COA Affirms Stockbridge-Munsee Immunity in State Courts
Here are the materials in Koscielak v. Stockbridge-Munsee Community:
Colorado Trial Court Quashes Subpoenas and Vacates Bench Warrants in Cash Advance Remand
Here is that opinion:
Here is the Colorado Supreme Court decision remanding the case back to the trial court.
Opening Brief in Washington State Court Appeal re: Jurisdiction Over Tribal Casino Financing
Here is the opening brief in Outsource Services Mgmt LLC v. Nooksack Business Corp.:
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The issue (from the brief):
This Court should reverse for legal errors the denial of the Nooksack Business Corporation’s motion to dismiss Outsource Services Management LLC’s complaint. The trial court erred when it denied the Nooksack Business Corporation’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, lack of personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim. Reversal is required to preserve the sovereignty of the Tribe under Washington and federal law and this Court’s jurisprudence regarding jurisdiction, and to comply with the Indian Gaming Regulation Act.
Update in Shirk v. Tanakeyowma (ISDEAA Sovereign Immunity Case)
Here are the federal government’s pleadings in that case (and all the rest of the materials moved here as well):
Proposed United States’ Amicus Brief
Brief of Amicus Curiae in Opposition to Pltf.’s Motion to Set Aside Judgment
Order Granting Rule 60 Relief (main opinion)
Arizona Court Holds ISDEAA Waives Tribal Immunity in State Court
An excerpt:
In this case, the GRIC officers were acting in the course and scope of their employment, but off the geographical boundaries of Indian Country. The Federal Tort Claim Act does not apply. Their activities instead fall within the intent of 25 U.S.C. § 450f(c). To the amount of GRIC liability coverage for the Defendants’ law enforcement activities off Indian Country not covered by FTCA, the GRIC has waived its Sovereign Immunity to suit in Arizona. The Court finds persuasive the U.S.A.’s Amicus Brief legal analysis. The Tribe has waived its Sovereign Immunity for the activities of the Defendant Officers in this case.
Complaint in Saybrook v. LDF and Godfrey & Kahn
Here:
Godfrey & Kahn Sued by Investors over Lac du Flambeau Bond Deal Done In by Immunity
We’ll post the complaint, filed in state court, once we get it (if we get it).
Meanwhile, here’s the news coverage.
Federal Court Affirms Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board’s Immunity
Complaint against Owen Valley Indian Housing Authority Dismissed
Here are the materials in Fritcher v. Zucco (E.D. Cal.):
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