Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska v. Salazar

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• concluding “sovereign immunity is an ongoing inquiry” rather than a status that is frozen at the time a complaint is filed
• stating that “the Secretary need only make a colorable claim that the land is held in trust on behalf of an Indian tribe”
• declining to exercise jurisdiction over a dispute concerning whether the Secretary of the Interior properly took a small tract of land into trust on behalf of a Native American tribe
• “Consequently, plaintiffs may not proceed unless they can establish that the United States has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to their claim.”
• “Plaintiffs may not proceed unless they can establish that the United States has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to their claim.” (citation modified)
• “A district court’s evaluation of sovereign immunity and its decision to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction are reviewed de novo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).