Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians v. Pierce

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an Indian tribe had standing to sue Kansas to prevent interference with or infringement on the tribe’s right to self-government
• finding that an Indian tribe had standing to sue Kansas to prevent interference with or infringement on the tribe’s right to self-government
• “The only reason to disfavor a preliminary injunction that grants substantially all the relief sought is if it would render a trial on the merits largely or completely meaningless.” (quotation omitted)
• “Federal law is replete with examples in which state law has had to accommodate tribal sovereignty, whether because of federal preemption or because of the guardian-ward relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes”
• “Federal law is replete with examples in which state law has had to accommodate tribal sovereignty, whether because of federal preemption or because of the guardian-ward relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes”
• “[A] federal claim must be colorable to establish federal question jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).