Ronald Gaines v. Ski Apache, Formerly Known as Sierra Blanca, Formerly Known as Sierra Blanca Ski Enterprises

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• recognizing the distinction between a tribe's governmental entity created under § 476 and a tribal business corporation formed under § 477
• explaining that a “tribe may ... charter a corporation pursuant to its own tribal laws, and such a corporation will be considered a citizen of a state for purposes of diversity jurisdiction”
• affirming lower court dismissal for lack of diversity jurisdiction when one party was owned and operated by the Mescalero Apache tribe as an unincorporated enterprise and therefore not an entity separate from the tribe
• A corporation chartered under tribal law \may be considered a citizen of the state of its principal place of business for diversity jurisdiction purposes.\
• “Both parties agree that an Indian tribe is not an unincorporated association.”
• The Honorable Donald E. O’Brien, then C.J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).