Legal Opinion
Brown v. Garcia
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided October 31, 2017No. A150374PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSiggins, J.
*1200This action is between two groups of the Elem Indian Colony Pomo Tribe (the Tribe), the "Brown faction" (plaintiffs) and the "Garcia Council" (defendants). Plaintiffs sued the Garcia Council over allegedly defamatory statements published in a notification that warned they would be disenrolled if the Tribe's General Council found them guilty of specified crimes. The trial court ruled the lawsuit was barred by sovereign immunity and dismissed the complaint. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
This action arose against a decades-long backdrop of disputes over Tribal leadership. In 2016 defendants disseminated…
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