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Third Circuit affirms district court, finding no sovereign immunity applies to a tribally owned lender

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On August 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed that an online consumer lending company owned by an federally recognized Indian tribe was not an extension of the tribe’s government and therefore did not...more

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State AGs file amicus brief in Fourth Circuit case involving use of sovereign immunity by tribal lenders to defeat state law...

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A coalition of 14 state Attorneys General and the D.C. Attorney General have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Williams v. Big Picture Loans in which a tribal lender and its tribal...more

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