(September 19, 2017, 4:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The issue of tribal sovereign immunity is once again before the U.S. Supreme Court with the Sept. 11 filing of a petition for certiorari by a Washington state Indian tribe that used the immunity defense to an in rem adverse possession action to quiet title and lost in a split ruling by that state’s high court (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Sharline Lundgren, et vir, No. 17-387, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3485)....