Legal Opinion
YAKAMA INDIAN NATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 1, 1999No. 98-35068PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
OVERVIEW
The Yakama Indian Nation (“the Nation”) appeals the dismissal of its declaratory judgment and injunctive relief action against the State of Washington Department of Revenue (“the Department”). In that action, the Nation challenged, on the ground of sovereign immunity, the Department’s seizure of unstamped packages of cigarettes owned by, and being transported to, the Nation. The Nation argues that the district court erred by immunizing the state against suit under the Eleventh Amendment and by denying the Nation’s request to amend its complaint to…
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