United States Tenth Circuit

The Intergovernmental Agreement among tribes and state social services agencies, even combined with tribal adoption of administrative rules and regulations of a state agency, does not constitute a waiver of tribal sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2001
• Published 09/11/2001

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BROWN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald J. Rissler of Central Wyoming Law Associates, P.C., Riverton, WY (John R. Hursch of Central Wyoming Law Associates, P.C., Riverton, WY;  John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, VA, with him on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stuart R. Day of Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, P.C., Casper, WY, for Defendants-Appellees St. Stephen's Indian High School, R. Kelly Proctor, and Kelly Elertson-Johnson., John C. Schumacher of Law Office of John Schumacher, Fort Washakie, WY, (Richard M. Berley of Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, WA, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribal Social Services, Thomas Kennah, and Darrell Lone Bear, Sr., Judith Studer of Schwartz, Bon, Walker & Studer, LLC, Casper, WY, for Defendants-Appellees Fremont Counseling Service and Lisa Cook-Gambler., Nicholas Vassallo, Assistant United States Attorney (David D. Freudenthal, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Cheyenne, WY, for Defendant-Appellee Susan Donnell, M.D.