Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community
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Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the scope of tribal sovereign immunity in the context of a Native American tribe’s off-reservation commercial gaming activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11914323 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community Context triple: [Bay Mills Indian Community, hasLegalCase, Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community]
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A.
Michigan v. Doran
Michigan v. Doran is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the limited role of asylum states in reviewing extradition requests from other states under the Extradition Clause and federal statute.
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B.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
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C.
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
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D.
Michigan v. Tucker
Michigan v. Tucker is a 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited the exclusionary rule’s application to statements obtained without full Miranda warnings, holding that derivative evidence from such statements could still be admissible.
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E.
Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation
Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court denied the Oneida Indian Nation sovereign authority over reacquired ancestral lands, emphasizing equitable doctrines and long-standing non-Indian governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community Target entity description: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the scope of tribal sovereign immunity in the context of a Native American tribe’s off-reservation commercial gaming activities.
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A.
Michigan v. Doran
Michigan v. Doran is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the limited role of asylum states in reviewing extradition requests from other states under the Extradition Clause and federal statute.
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B.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
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C.
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
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D.
Michigan v. Tucker
Michigan v. Tucker is a 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited the exclusionary rule’s application to statements obtained without full Miranda warnings, holding that derivative evidence from such statements could still be admissible.
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E.
Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation
Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court denied the Oneida Indian Nation sovereign authority over reacquired ancestral lands, emphasizing equitable doctrines and long-standing non-Indian governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
federal Indian law case ⓘ legal case ⓘ tribal sovereign immunity case ⓘ |
| affirms | decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ |
| concerns | off-reservation casino in Vanderbilt, Michigan ⓘ |
| hasAreaOfLaw |
federal Indian law
ⓘ
gaming law ⓘ sovereign immunity ⓘ |
| hasArguedDate | 2013-12-02 ⓘ |
| hasCitation |
134 S. Ct. 2024
ⓘ
188 L. Ed. 2d 1071 ⓘ 572 U.S. 782 ⓘ |
| hasCourt | Supreme Court of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDecisionDate | 2014-05-27 ⓘ |
| hasDissentBy |
Antonin Scalia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clarence Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel A. Alito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDocketNumber | 12-515 ⓘ |
| hasJoinedDissent |
Antonin Scalia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clarence Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel A. Alito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJoinedMajority |
Anthony M. Kennedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Antonin Scalia NERFINISHED ⓘ John G. Roberts Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonia Sotomayor NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegalIssue |
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
NERFINISHED
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off-reservation tribal gaming ⓘ tribal sovereign immunity ⓘ |
| hasLowerCourt | United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorityOpinionBy | Elena Kagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPetitioner | State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRespondent | Bay Mills Indian Community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerm | October Term 2013 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVote | 5-4 ⓘ |
| holds |
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act does not authorize Michigan to sue Bay Mills Indian Community for operating an off-reservation casino
NERFINISHED
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tribal sovereign immunity bars state suit against tribe for off-reservation commercial activities absent congressional authorization or tribal waiver ⓘ |
| interpretsStatute | Indian Gaming Regulatory Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvesParty |
Bay Mills Indian Community
NERFINISHED
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State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrecedentFor | scope of tribal sovereign immunity in off-reservation commercial activities ⓘ |
| isRelatedCase |
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.
NERFINISHED
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Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community Description of subject: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the scope of tribal sovereign immunity in the context of a Native American tribe’s off-reservation commercial gaming activities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bay Mills Indian Community