Tribe Tells Top Court Cert Not Warranted For Florida Court’s Immunity Ruling

(January 5, 2018, 8:39 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court need not review a Florida appellate ruling that sovereign immunity bars a law firm’s fraud and racketeering claims against an Indian tribe because the decision comports with tribal sovereign immunity jurisprudence of the top federal courts, the tribe says in a Dec. 13 opposition to the law firm’s petition for a writ of certiorari (Lewis Tein, P.L., et al. v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, No. 17-702, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4992)....