C & L Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma

Summary

The Court held that a tribe waives its sovereign immunity from suit in state court when it enters into a contract containing an arbitration clause that allows judicial enforcement of awards in "any court having jurisdiction thereof." Given the choice-of-law clause designating Oklahoma law, which provides courts with jurisdiction to enforce such agreements, the tribe's waiver was clear enough to permit enforcement in a state court.