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· 2/11/1971

White Mountain Apache Indian Tribe v. Shelley

Citations

  • 480 P.2d 654
  • 107 Ariz. 4
  • 1971 Ariz. LEXIS 217

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding “it would defeat the purpose of Congress in granting immunity to Indian Tribes” if subordinate economic organizations of a tribe were not cloaked with sovereign immunity
  • noting FATCO’s board had “full authority to act for and on behalf of” the tribe in all phases of FATCO’s operations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hays, Struckmeyer, Udall, Lockwood, Cameron

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