State Ex Rel. Suthers v. Cash Advance & Preferred Cash Loans

Opinion by

Judge BERNARD.

In this interlocutory appeal, we discuss the parameters of a Colorado trial court’s jurisdiction to determine the ownership and management of two Internet lending businesses in the face of claims that they are owned and operated by Indian tribes. We examine the analytical structure necessary to decide whether tribal sovereign immunity applies to these businesses, and, if so, whether it protects them, and individuals associated with them, from action undertaken by the Attorney General to enforce the Uniform Commercial Credit Code (UCCC) and the Colorado Consumer…