Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1998-05-26

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*753 Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court. In this commercial suit against an Indian Tribe, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals rejected the Tribe’s claim of sovereign immunity. Our case law to date often recites the rule of tribal immunity from suit. While these precedents rest on early cases that assumed immunity without extensive reasonin…

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