Title VII Claim against Cherokee Nation-Owned Company Proceeds

Here are the materials so far in Nepomuceno v. Cherokee Medical Services (S.D. Cal.):

4 CMS Motion to Dismiss

10 Nepomuceno Opposition

11 CMS Reply

16 DCT Order Denying Motion

An excerpt:

CMS has not come forward with any evidence of how CMS was formed, who owns CMS, how CMS is managed, and where profits from the business go. Therefore, CMS has not established that it is an arm of the Cherokee Nation entitled to tribal sovereign immunity from suit, and the Court denies CMS’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. CMS may reassert tribal sovereign immunity in a motion for summary judgment. However, any such motion should not be filed until Plaintiff has had the opportunity to conduct adequate discovery on the issue.