Sovereign Immunity For Tribal Casino Limo Driver Debated In Supreme Court

Mealey's (January 10, 2017, 8:39 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not allowing non-Indians who were injured as a result of a tribal employee’s negligence miles away from a reservation a remedy except what the tribe chooses to provide in tribal court “represents an extraordinary and unwarranted expansion of tribal immunity,” an attorney for a couple injured by a limousine driver for a Native American casino told the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 9 (Brian Lewis and Michelle Lewis v. William Clarke, No. 15-1500, U.S. Sup.)....