Victor Fontenelle v. Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• inclusion of general \sue or be sued\ clause in tribal constitution \rendered (tribe) amenable to a quiet title action.\
• tribal corporate charter authorizes it to \sue or be sued in courts of competent jurisdiction\
• inclusion of general “sue or be sued” clause in tribal constitution “rendered [tribe] amenable to a quiet title action.”
• United States “an indispensable party,” where lands held by United States as trustee for Indians, but immunity waived by Congress in the circumstances
• tribal corporate charter authorizes it to “sue or be sued in courts of competent jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).