Wells Fargo Bank, National Ass'n v. Lake of the Torches Economic Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• assuming jurisdiction and holding that a bond indenture agreement had sufficient restrictions on the tribe’s ability to control casino revenues that the agreement constituted a management contract and that the contract was void for failure to obtain NIGC approval
• “[M]ost courts agree that Indian tribes are not citizens of any state for purposes of the diversity statute. . . .”
• “[M]ost courts agree that Indian tribes are not citizens of any state for purposes of the diversity statute . . . .”
• “Our colleagues in the Eighth Circuit have held that an unincorporated school board operated by an Indian tribe and ‘considered part of the Indian tribe’ is not a citizen of a state.”
• contractual waiver of sovereign immunity held invalid

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