Vann v. Kempthorne

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the text of the Thirteenth Amendment does not provide an “express and unequivocal” abrogation of the Cherokee Nation’s sovereign immunity
• surveying the treatment of Larson’s footnote 11 and concluding that Larson may not bar all positive injunctive relief
• applying the Larson- Dugan exception based on an alleged violation of a treaty
• \[W]e cannot extend Coeur d'Alene beyond its 'particular and special circumstances' ... which involved the protection of a State's land.\
• sovereign immunity barred a suit against a tribe for badges and incidents of slavery, though it tolerated a suit against tribal officials under Ex Parte Young
• “The basic doctrine of Ex parte Young can be simply stated. A federal court is not barred by the Eleventh Amendment from enjoining state officers from acting unconstitutionally . . . .” (citation omitted)

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