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Indian Band Lost Tribal Sovereign Immunity by Voluntarily Litigating in District Court

September 23, 2020 Panel Says Challenge to Settlement With City, Based on Alleged Brown Act Violation, May Proceed

An Indian band that fought for 14 years to be allowed to build a $1.2 billion hotel/casino on the site of an abandoned naval base, in the end entering into settlement under which the city will sell the land, with the band and its allied developer receiving half the profits, now faces the prospect of going back to Square One, under a holding yesterday by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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