March 05, 2021
A western New York county has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Second Circuit decision that the Cayuga Indian Nation is shielded from paying county property taxes, saying the high court should address questions around tribal sovereign immunity that weren't resolved in its previous decisions.
October 26, 2020
Sovereign immunity shielded the Cayuga Nation in a yearslong dispute with New York's Seneca County over the collection of property taxes on tribal lands, a Second Circuit panel said Friday, upholding a lower court's 2018 decision.
July 20, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn a Native American man's Oklahoma state court convictions is irrelevant to a Second Circuit appeal in a tribal property tax dispute, New York's Seneca County said Friday.
July 16, 2019
The Cayuga Indian Nation urged the Second Circuit on Monday to affirm a lower court's finding that tribal immunity protects it in a dispute with a New York county over the collection of property taxes on land owned by the tribe.