Legal Opinion
Lula Williams v. Big Picture Loans, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2019No. 18-1827PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGORY, Chief Judge:
*174 The Lac Vieux Desert Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians ("the Tribe") formed two business entities under tribal law. This appeal arises from a suit brought by five Virginia residents against those entities, Big Picture Loans, LLC and Ascension Technologies, LLC (collectively "the Entities"). In the underlying action, the Virginia residents claimed that they obtained payday loans on the internet from Big Picture and that those loans carried unlawfully high interest rates. The Entities moved to dismiss the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the basis…
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