Legal Opinion
Calvello v. Yankton Sioux Tribe
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided September 9, 1998No. NonePublished
1Opinion of the Court
584 N.W.2d 108 (1998)
1998 SD 107
James CALVELLO, Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, Defendant and Appellee.
No. 20209.
Supreme Court of South Dakota.
Considered on Briefs March 25, 1998.
Reassigned May 11, 1998.
Decided September 9, 1998.
A. Russell Janklow, Sioux Falls, for plaintiff and appellant.
James G. Abourezk of Abourezk Law Offices, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellee.
KONENKAMP, Justice (on reassignment).
[¶ 1.] Today we must decide whether, in a contract dispute with one of its employees, an Indian Tribe waived its sovereign immunity in state court either by participating in…
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