Legal Opinion
Meyer & Associates, Inc. v. Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 8, 2007No. CW 2006-1542PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Judge.
|TIn this writ application, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (Coushatta) urges that the trial court erred in determining that it had subject matter jurisdiction in this matter and that its Tribal Court, not the trial *932court, should determine whether the Tribal Council’s Chairman and/or his designee had authority to waive Coushatta’s sovereign immunity in a series of contractual agreements. For the following reasons, we stay this matter to allow the Tribal Court to make this determination.
Facts
Coushatta is a federally recognized Indian tribe with its reservation located…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Meyer & Associates, Inc. v. Coushatta Tribe of La.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2008
- State v. JoshuaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2008