Can an Indian tribe be sued for non-reservation activities that occur on and off the reservation?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Cmty. v. Zinke, 889 F.3d 584 (9th Cir. 2018):
Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Cmty. , U.S. , 134 S.Ct. 2024, 2028, 188 L.Ed.2d 1071 (2014) (holding that tribes enjoy sovereign immunity from suit for on- and off-reservation activities). Citizens concludes that such failure to include enforcement mechanisms renders mitigation "illusory."
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