• Source: Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak

Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak, 501 U.S. 775 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Eleventh Amendment prevents tribes from filing lawsuits against the United States because they are not party to the Constitution; therefore, the United States must sue itself as a trustee for the tribe under United States v. Minnesota.




Criticism


Blatchford was out of step with most prior Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence, which said sovereign immunity under the Amendment only applied to situations mentioned directly in its text.




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External links


Text of Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak, 501 U.S. 775 (1991) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia

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• Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak
• Sovereign immunity
• List of United States Supreme Court cases involving Indian tribes
• Sovereign immunity in the United States
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 501
• Aboriginal title in the United States
• Iñupiaq language