Judge Dismisses Counterclaims, Third-Party Suits In New York Tribe’s Smoke Shop Row

Mealey's ( January 10, 2023, 1:22 PM EST) -- SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A New York federal judge on Jan. 9 mostly dismissed counterclaims filed against the Cayuga Nation by the operators of a non-tribal smoke shop on the nation’s reservation for shutting down the shop and dismissed the operators’ third-party complaints against a tribal official in their entirety because the operators failed to show that he was acting in his individual capacity when they were evicted from the shop....

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