Cayuga Nation v. Parker et al
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April 18, 2024
NY Tribe Says Smoke Shop Group Can't Be Trusted With Data
The Cayuga Nation is urging a New York federal judge to keep one of the entrepreneurs it's accused of opening up an unlicensed smoke shop on tribal land from viewing spreadsheets purportedly detailing lost revenues the tribe suffered due to the store's operation, claiming he'll use the information to hurt the tribe's business.
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March 19, 2024
Judge Mulls Smoke Shop Group's Push For Tribe's Damages Data
A New York federal magistrate judge is asking the Cayuga Nation and a former smoke shop, shut down on the grounds it was selling cannabis and untaxed cigarettes, to weigh in on whether the tribe must turn over spreadsheets purportedly detailing damages and lost revenues stemming from the shop.
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January 11, 2023
NY Judge Trims Eviction Claims In Tribe Pot Seller Suit
A New York federal judge has tossed a slew of counterclaims brought by a cannabis and cigarette retailer against the Cayuga Nation while keeping intact two illegal removal allegations, reasoning that the allegedly unlawful property removal arose amid the "same transaction or occurrence" from which the upstate New York tribe's remaining racketeering claim stems.
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October 31, 2022
NY Tribe Says It Is Immune From Pot Sellers' Eviction Claims
Cayuga Nation officials say the upstate New York tribe has sovereign immunity from claims that it wrongly evicted a cannabis and cigarette retailer from tribal land, blasting representatives of the business for trying to "shoehorn" those allegations into the tribe's own lawsuit against them.
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October 25, 2022
NY Pot Sellers Say Tribe Must Face Illegal Eviction Claims
A group of upstate New York cannabis retailers says the Cayuga Nation cannot avoid claims that it wrongly evicted them from tribal land, telling a Syracuse federal judge that granting the tribe immunity would unfairly insulate Native communities from all sorts of real estate disputes.
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October 04, 2022
Cayuga Nation Invokes Tribal Immunity In Pot Sales Fight
The Cayuga Nation is asking a New York federal court to throw out counterclaims lobbed against it in a suit seeking to bar a group of people and their businesses from selling cannabis illegally on its land, saying as a sovereign nation, it has immunity from those claims.
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August 15, 2022
RICO Claims Cut In Cayuga Nation Suit To Block Pot Sellers
A New York federal judge has thrown out Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims in a suit brought by the Cayuga Nation alleging a group of people conspired to illegally sell cigarettes and cannabis within its territory, saying the nation hasn't established the level of harm needed to support the claims.
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June 03, 2022
Cayuga Nation's RICO Suit Against Pot Sellers Kept Alive
A New York federal judge has denied a bid to dismiss a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act suit the Cayuga Nation filed alleging a group of people illegally sold marijuana and cigarettes in violation of Cayuga Nation law, but stayed the case while a parallel suit in the tribe's courts runs its course.