In plaintiff's case against the defendants for repudiating an agreement whereby defendant was to deliver diesel fuel and soybean oil to plaintiff's refinery facility, dismissal of the suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed as the defendant, a federally chartered tribal corporation, enjoys tribal-sovereign immunity.
Read Memphis Biofuels, LLC. v. Chicksaw Nation Indus., Inc., No. 08-6145
Appellate Information
Argued: October 6, 2009
Decided and Filed: November 4, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Circuit Judge Cole
Counsel
For Appellant: John R. Branson, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC., Memphis, Tennessee.
For Appellee: Donna Brown Jacobs, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC., Jackson, Mississippi.
