Miami Tribe of Oklahoma v. Walden

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GILBERT, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on a motion to intervene filed by the State of Illinois (“Illinois”) (Doc. 16). Illinois seeks to intervene for the limited purpose of moving to dismiss the action for lack of jurisdiction. Mindful of Illinois’s eleventh amendment immunity from suit in federal court, the Court raised the issue of its jurisdiction to consider the motion to intervene. The Court first addresses the issue of jurisdiction, then the motion to intervene.

1. Background

Plaintiff Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (“the Miami Tribe”) brings this suit…