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173176P.pdf   02/22/2019  Rudy Stanko  v.  Oglala Sioux Tribe
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3176
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Rapid City   
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging the Tribe and its tribal officers arrested plaintiff and detained him on an illegally issued warrant, assaulted and battered him and placed him in an isolation cell, and stole money from him, the claims against the Tribe and the individual defendants acting in their official capacity were properly dismissed based on the Tribe's sovereign immunity; plaintiff's individual capacity claims were properly dismissed without prejudice for failure to exhaust an available tribal court remedy. Judge Gruender, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.