DeYoung v. Cenex Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Eleventh Amendment did not bar an Indian tribe from seeking a declaratory judgment precluding the imposition of California’s sales and use tax on purchases of food and beverages by non-tribal members at a tribal resort on reservation land
• holding that the Eleventh Amendment did not bar an Indian tribe from seeking a declaratory judgment precluding the imposition of California’s sales and use tax on purchases of food and beverages by non-tribal members at a tribal resort on reservation land
• noting that the Indian tribes exception to the Tax Injunction Act was satisfied where a section 17 corporation and the governing tribe were co- plaintiffs
• recognizing exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity “for prospective declaratory and injunctive relief against state officers, sued in their official capacities, to enjoin an alleged ongoing violation of federal law”
• “Though not jurisdictional in the traditional sense, whether the Tribe’s claims are barred by the Eleventh Amendment presents threshold issues for our review.”
• action seeking to prevent state officials from collecting accrued taxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).