Tribal Lending Companies Immune From Class Suit Alleging Unlawful Practices

(November 24, 2015, 7:45 AM EST) -- BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge on Nov. 20 dismissed two payday lending companies from a consumer’s putative class action alleging illegal lending practices after finding that the companies are both arms of a Native American tribe entitled to sovereign immunity (Alicia Everette v. Joshua Mitchem, et al., No. 15-1261, D. Md.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156980)....