tribal-sovereign-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A715 Flying T Ranch, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe, et al. Washington 2025-12-18 Application adverse-possession indian-tribe nonreservation-land property-exception quiet-title tribal-sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
21-1544 Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. California 2022-06-09 Denied civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability Whether the Court should clarify tribal sovereign immunity law to allow tort victims to sue a tribe based on vicarious liability when a tribe ratifies…
21-7180 Hung M. Nguyen v. Cache Creek Casino Resort Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-statutes constitutional-rights due-process federal-question interstate-commerce self-government tribal-sovereign-immunity Does Cache Creek Casino Resort the subclass member of Yocha Dehe Wintum Nation as the tribal Indian of United States as trustee who owns this gambling…
20-1210 Seneca County, New York v. Cayuga Indian Nation of New York Second Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied city-of-sherrill foreclosure immovable-property local-tax-authorities open-market open-market-land property-rights property-taxes tax-collection tribal-sovereign-immunity Whether tribal sovereign immunity bars local tax authorities from collecting lawfully imposed property taxes by foreclosing on real property that a tr…
20-791 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the 'pl…
19-1127 Wheeler K. Neff v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations constitute mail/wire fraud?
18-7404 John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv…
18-899 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted