''Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak'', 501 U.S. 775 (1991), was a

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case in which the Court held that the Eleventh Amendment prevents tribes from filing lawsuits against the

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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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* 1991 in United States case law United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court United States tribal sovereign immunity case law {{SCOTUS-Rehnquist-stub