Ransom v. St. Regis Mohawk Education & Community Fund, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Titone, J.

The District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act and New York’s Not-For-Profit Corporation Law both empower *557corporate entities to "sue and be sued.” We are asked in this case to hold that reference to the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act in the charter of a tribal social service agency incorporated thereunder, along with that corporation’s qualification to do business in New York, constitutes a waiver of tribal sovereign immunity. We hold that reference in the corporate charter to statutory authority to sue and be sued, standing alone, neither…