United States Eleventh Circuit
Freemanville Water Sys., Inc. v. Poarch Band of Creek Indians, 08-10602
In an action by a rural water authority to prevent Defendant Indian tribe from replacing Plaintiff's water system with its own, judgment for Defendant is affirmed, where the anti-curtailment provision of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act did not abrogate Defendant's sovereign immunity.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/30/2009
- Published 03/30/2009
Judges
- CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and HOOD, District Judge.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Thomas Marriott Wood, H. William Wasden, Burr & Forman, LLP, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Robin G. Laurie, Kelly Fitzgerald Pate, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.