Parker Drilling Co. v. Metlakatla Indian Community

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• holding that the sovereign immunity afforded to tribes extends to their governmental organizations and business entities
• holding that the sue or be sued clause in corporate charter served as a waiver because the clause had no restrictions or limitations and was a clear, explicit, and unambiguous waiver
• holding a federally-incorporated tribe not to be an “Indian” for purposes of Public Law 280
• holding a federally-incorporated tribe not to be an \Indian\ for purposes of Public Law 280
• observing that Congress enacted section 17 “[r]ecognizing that the protection of sovereign immunity would put the Indian tribe at a competitive disadvantage in obtaining credit and entering into business transactions”
• construing Public Law 280 as having more in common with sovereign immunity than with traditional notions of subject matter jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).