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ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Blue Lake Ranchería (“Plaintiff’ or “the Tribe”) alleges that the California Employment Development Department (“EDD”) violated its tribal sovereign immunity by attaching liens on tribal assets. Plaintiff now moves for summary judgment. Although discovery remains open for several more months, Defendants have not raised any discoverable facts that could alter the Court’s conclusion, described herein, that Plaintiff is entitled to summary judgment.

*1136 I. UNDISPUTED FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiff is a federally-recognized tribe. Mobbs’ Decl. ¶ 3 Exh. 1. For several years, a division of the Tribe’s federally-chartered corporation called Mainstay Business Solutions (“Mainstay”) 2 operated a “temporary staffing and employee leasing business.” Ramos Decl. ¶ 3; Defendants’ Response to Plaintiffs Statement of Facts ¶¶ 8-10. In 2003, Mainstay elected to participate in a joint federal-state unemployment insurance program. See 26 U.S.C. § 3301 et seq.; Ramos Decl. ¶ 4. Mainstay became a “reimbursable employer.” Ramos Decl. ¶ 4. As such, the state would pay former employees and Mainstay would later reimburse the state…