World Touch Gaming, Inc. v. Massena Management, LLC

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• holding that a senior vice president's signing of agreement containing express waiver of sovereign immunity provision was ineffective because that right was reserved exclusively to the tribal council
• concluding that tribe did not waive its immunity under terms of sales and lease agreements that management company signed because the tribe’s constitution and civil judicial code required express, written waiver by tribal council to waive immunity
• holding casino protected by tribal sovereign immunity which “extends to tribal enterprises”
• “The basis for this action is the Lease and Sales Agreements between World Touch and the Casino”
• cited with approval by the Sixth Circuit in Memphis Biofuels, 585 F.3d at 922

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).