Legal Opinion
Rahne Pistor v. Carlos Garcia
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 30, 2015No. 12-17095PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Our question is whether tribal officers may assert tribal sovereign immunity when sued in their individual capacities for an assertedly unconstitutional detention and seizure of property. The seizure and detention at issue took place at a casino owned and operated by a tribe on tribal land.
We conclude that the tribal defendants are not entitled to sovereign immunity because they were sued in their individual rather than their official capacities, as any recovery will run against the individual tribal defendants, rather than the tribe. Maxwell v. County of San…
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