California Court of Appeal

Dismissal of an action by the Commissioner of the California Department of Corporations against five "payday loan" businesses owned by defendant-tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribe, and defendant-corporation owned by another federally recognized Indian tribe is affirmed, where the two tribal entities and their cash-advance and short-term-loan businesses are sufficiently related to their respective Indian tribes to be protected from this state enforcement action under the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/21/2014
• Published 01/21/2014

Judges

• PERLUSS

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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