Navajo Housing Authority v. Navajo Nation Labor Commission

OPINION

This consolidated action is before this Court on five separate petitions for a writ of prohibition against the Navajo Nation Labor Commission (“Commission”) on the grounds that the Commission lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioners on the basis of sovereign immunity. We deny the writ of prohibition and remand the cases.

I

Petitioner Navajo Housing Authority (NHA) at one time employed each of the five claimants in this consolidated writ action, whose separate Cases remain pending before the Commission. All the claimants except one claim they were unjustly discharged by NHA.…