Legal Opinion
Calvello v. Yankton Sioux Tribe
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided September 9, 1998No. NonePublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 arbitration or by virtue of its Tribal-State Gaming Compact. After the Tribe fired its gaming casino’s general manager, the Tribal Chairman agreed to arbitrate the manager’s claims, but because the Tribe’s governing body had never consented to arbitrate, the Tribe repudiated the arbitrator’s ruling. Following an unsuccessful attempt to enforce the award in federal court, the general…
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