Gallegos v. Pueblo of Tesuque

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the tribe was entitled to sovereign immunity on the plaintiffs claim for damages that resulted from the wind blowing a tribal trash can that struck the plaintiff in the face
• noting that “the language of the IGRA allows the states and the tribes to negotiate with respect to jurisdiction”
• noting that \the language of the IGRA allows the states and the tribes to negotiate with respect to jurisdiction\
• stating “[pjublic policy forbids the application of the doctrine of estoppel to a sovereign state where public waters are involved”
• “The principle that the legal effect of conduct should ordinarily be assessed under the law that existed when the conduct took place has timeless and universal human appeal.” (quoting Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp. v. Bonjorno, 494 U.S. at 855, 110 S.Ct. 1570 (Scalia, J., concurring
• tribe is indispensable party in action brought against insurer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).