Legal Opinion

Lumber Industry Pension Fund v. Warm Springs Forest Products Industries

District Court, E.D. California

Decided January 2, 1990No. CIV.S-88-1218 RARPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

RAMIREZ, District Judge.

By motion filed January 26, 1989, defendant WARM SPRINGS FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES seeks dismissal of the underlying action, arguing that plaintiff LUMBER INDUSTRY PENSION PLAN’S complaint is barred by the doctrine of Indian sovereign immunity and, in the alternative, that the federal statute under which plaintiff filed its suit is inapplicable to the defendant enterprise. The matter came on for hearing during this court’s regularly scheduled law and motion calendar for March 6, 1989. By order filed April 11, 1989, the court found, without prejudice, that the…

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