Tribal Immunity Does Not Cover Casino Limo Driver, Crash Victims Tell High Court

(November 16, 2016, 10:50 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should reverse a Connecticut Supreme Court finding that a limousine driver for an Indian casino is protected by the tribe’s sovereign immunity from a couple’s personal injury claims stemming from a car crash because the holding “would represent an unwarranted intrusion on state regulatory authority and would deprive tort victims of compensation,” the couple argues in a Nov. 14 merits brief (Brian Lewis and Michelle Lewis v. William Clarke, No. 15-1500, U.S. Sup.)....