ButU.S. Supreme Court precedents allow individual tribal officials to be sued even without the tribe's involvement, the decision stated.

The tribe cannot be sued due to sovereign immunity, the court noted. ButU.S. Supreme Court precedents allow individual tribal officials to be sued even without the tribe's involvement, the decision stated.

"Applying the precedents that permit suits against government officials in their official capacities, we conclude that this suit may proceed against the Principal Chief in his official capacity, without the Cherokee Nation itself as a party," Judge Brett Michael Kavanaugh wrote in the unanimous ruling.