United States Tenth Circuit

In an action brought against a federally-recognized Indian tribe seeking declaratory and injunctive relief relating to a forfeiture order entered by a tribal court, denial of the tribe's motion to dismiss and summary judgment for plaintiffs are reversed as the tribe has not waived, nor has Congress abrogated, its sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2007
• Published 09/20/2007

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before PORFILIO, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: 


• For Appellees:
  
• Shannon B. Cozzoni, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Okmulgee, OK, for Defendant-Appellant., Tony M. Graham, William F. Smith, Graham and Freeman, PLLC, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.