# Cossey v. Cherokee Nation Enterprises, LLC

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · January 20, 2009 · 212 P.3d 447

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9787743

## Case

- **Full name:** Loyman COSSEY, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. CHEROKEE NATION ENTERPRISES, LLC, Formerly Known as Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Inc., and Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Defendant/Petitioner
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** January 20, 2009
- **Citations:** 212 P.3d 447; 2009 OK 6; 2009 Okla. LEXIS 6; 2009 WL 146685
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Kauger
- **Judges:** Taylor, Opala, Watt, Winchester, Colbert, Edmondson, Kauger, Hargrave, Reif
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled in part by Sheffer v. Buffalo Run Casino, PTE, Inc., 2013 Okla. LEXIS 105 (2013).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9787743

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a tribal court is not a court of general jurisdiction and that "[i]ts jurisdiction could be asserted in matters involving non-Indians only when their activities on Indian lands are activities that may be regulated by the Tribe"

## Opinion text

KAUGER, J.,
dissenting to the denial of rehearing:
1 1 I would grant rehearing to re-examine the plurality opinion.

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