Hoover v. Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma

957 P.2d 81 (1998)

1998 OK 23

Robert M. HOOVER, Jr., Appellee,

v.

The KIOWA TRIBE of OKLAHOMA, Appellant.

No. 87139.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 17, 1998.

As Corrected March 24, 1998 and April 13, 1998.

R. Brown Wallace, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

William J. Robinson, Oklahoma City, for appellee.

ALMA WILSON, Justice:

ถ 1 In Hoover v. Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, 909 P.2d 59 (Okla.1995), cert. denied 517 U.S. 1188, 116 S.Ct. 1675, 134 L.Ed.2d 779 (1996) (Hoover I), we rejected the argument of appellant, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma (the Tribe), that the common law doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity…