Justices Take Up Tribal Sovereign Immunity Question In Quiet Title Dispute

Mealey's (December 11, 2017, 9:28 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 agreed to decide whether the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity protects a Washington state Indian tribe from an in rem adverse possession action to quiet title filed by a couple seeking to keep land that the tribe says it owns (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Sharline Lundgren, et vir, No. 17-387, U.S. Sup.)....