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Ninth Circuit· 9/9/2005

Wilbur v. Locke

Citations

  • 423 F.3d 1101
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 19471

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that Eleventh Amendment immunity did not bar suit against state officials where “the complaint alleged that the challenged statutes authorize the state to enter into agreements which violate federal law” (emphasis added)
  • determining that “jurisdictional issues should be decided before reaching the Rule 19 issue”
  • tribe’s interest in sovereign immunity outweighs plaintiffs’ lack of remedy, even where plaintiffs sought to invalidate a state-tribal cigarette tax agreement
  • “[I]t is well-established that all parties to a contract are necessary in an action to set aside the contract.”

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