Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Applicant-Appellee v. The Cherokee Nation

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

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At issue in this case is the jurisdictional authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the Cherokee Nation pursuant to the ADEA, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 621-34 (1982). The dispute was precipitated by EEOC’s attempt judicially to enforce an administrative subpoena duces tecum directing the Cherokee Nation to produce documents of several former tribal employees. The subpoena was issued as part of an EEOC *938investigation of an age discrimination charge filed by complainant, Mrs. Louise Gossett, against the Cherokee Nation’s Director of Health and…