Aircraft Equipment Co. v. Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma

*452ALMA WILSON, J.,

with whom OPALA, J., joins, dissenting:

¶ 1 Remand of this cause to the district court for entry of judgment in favor of The Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma is inappropriate and premature. Accordingly, I must respectfully dissent.

¶ 2 Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., 523 U.S. 751, 118 S.Ct. 1700, 1705, 140 L.Ed.2d 981 (1998), recognized that tribal immunity is an unsound doctrine,1 but declined to revisit the case law.2 Manufacturing Technologies rejected the request that the doctrine of tribal immunity be confined to on-reservation, noncommercial activities3…