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ATAKAPA INDIAN DE CREOLE NATION v. LOUISIANA

No. 19-30032. Consolidated with 19-30064.

943 F.3d 1004 (2019)

ATAKAPA INDIAN DE CREOLE NATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of LOUISIANA, Office of Indian Affairs; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED December 10, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Moses, Jr. , Esq., Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Matthew F. Block , Office of the Governor for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee State of Louisiana, Office of Indian Affairs.

Katherine Wharton Vincent, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana, for Defendant-Appellee United States of America.

Before OWEN, Chief Judge, and BARKSDALE and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

The plaintiff, a lawyer who styles himself both a monarch and a deity, brought claims on behalf of an Indian tribe alleging that the defendants have, among other misdeeds, monopolized "intergalactic foreign trade." The district court dismissed the case based on sovereign immunity. We affirm on the alternate basis...

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