United States Sixth Circuit

In plaintiff's case against the defendants for repudiating an agreement whereby defendant was to deliver diesel fuel and soybean oil to plaintiff's refinery facility, dismissal of the suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed as the defendant, a federally chartered tribal corporation, enjoys tribal-sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2009
• Published 11/04/2009

Judges

• Before: MARTIN, COLE, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ON BRIEF:  John R. Branson, BAKER, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C., Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Donna Brown Jacobs, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, Jackson, Mississippi, Randall Dean Noel, Daniel Warren Van Horn, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee.