Legal Opinion
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1998No. 96-1037PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
For U.S. Supreme Court briefs, see:
1997 WL 523863 (Pet.Brief)
1997 WL 597299 (Resp.Brief)
199 WL 668161 (Reply.Brief)
753Justice 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 reasoning, we adhere to these decisions and reverse the judgment.
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Petitioner Kiowa Tribe is an Indian Tribe recognized by the Federal…
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