Here is the opinion from the Eastern District of North Carolina in Cummings v. Lumbee Tribe — cummings-v-lumbee-tribe-dct-order
The issue wasn’t briefed at all, it appears, by the defendants, who just made a motion. But here are the materials anyway:
Sovereign immunity and a lack of federal subject matter jurisdiction barred this wrongful discharge complaint in Louis v. Stockbridge-Munsee Community, decided in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
From the Salt Lake Tribune:
Federal appeals court judges have said a Navajo tribal court can’t force the San Juan County-owned Montezuma Creek Clinic to rehire employees who alleged they were wrongfully terminated.
But three former employees won’t take no for an answer.
In March, they asked the Navajo Supreme Court to instruct tribal courts to ignore that ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [Supreme Court Project materials] — and to order the clinic to pay fines totaling more than $26 million. In addition, the ex-workers want their former employer to pay their attorneys’ fees for the past nine years.
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