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Tribal sovereign immunity prevents state foreclosure for failure to pay state property taxes

August 22nd, 2012 by Joseph William Singer

Applying the standards set down by the Second Circuit in Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Madison County, 605 F.3d 149 (2d Cir. 2010, a federal district in New York affirmed that a county could not foreclose on tribal land for nonpayment of state property taxes on the ground that the tribe has sovereign immunity that it has not waived and that has not been abrogated by federal law. Cayuga Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Seneca County, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117245 (W.D.N.Y. 2012).

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