Legal Opinion
CATAWBA INDIAN TRIBE, SC v. City of Rock Hill, SC
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 20, 2007No. 05-2050PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published per curiam opinion.
OPINION
2Per curiam
Appellant Catawba Indian Tribe (the Tribe) filed suit against the City of Rock Hill (the City), alleging that a recently enacted City Ordinance impaired contracts previously entered into by the parties for the construction of water infrastructure to serve the Tribe’s reservation. Because the Ordinance did not impair the contracts entered into between the Tribe and the City, we conclude that the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution was not violated.
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In 1999, the parties entered into a “WATER AND/OR SEWER SERVICE AGREEMENT AND…
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