Pan American Company v. Sycuan Band of Mission Indians

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• concluding that a virtually identical arbitration clause did not constitute a waiver of tribal immunity and rejecting argument that submission to arbitration is necessarily a submission to judicial jurisdiction
• stating the \fundamental principle that tribal sovereign immunity remains intact unless surrendered in express and unequivocal terms\
• affirming dismissal of Pan American’s suit challenging the validity of an amended bingo ordinance requiring additional fees to operate the bingo business
• affirming Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) dismissal based on tribal sovereign immunity
• responding to argument that contract implying waiver was “trap” for unsuspecting party
• clause requiring arbitration of contractual disputes did not expressly waive Tribe’s immu nity

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