ALBANY – A corporate subsidiary of the Seneca Nation of Indians created to build a golf course at its western New York casino is not protected under the tribe’s sovereign immunity from being sued, a divided state Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
The 4-3 court said in Sue/Perior Concrete & Paving v. Lewiston Golf Course Corporation, 196, that it could find no basis in federal or state law to support the argument that any of the corporate entities of the Seneca Nation—or of any other American tribe for that matter—are protected from suit by their nation’s sovereign immunity.
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