N.D. Tribe’s Council Urges 8th Circuit To Uphold Dismissal Of Fraud, RICO Claims

Mealey's (September 23, 2022, 11:21 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A federal trial court correctly determined that because a business council for a North Dakota Indian tribe did not waive its sovereign immunity, fraud and racketeering claims leveled by a tribal member’s company that entered into a joint venture with the council cannot proceed, the council tells the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Sept. 22 appellee brief....