Sovereign Immunity Ruling Will Have Disastrous Effects, Tribe Tells Justices

(January 30, 2018, 3:18 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — If allowed to stand, a Washington Supreme Court decision that sovereign immunity does not protect a Native American Indian tribe from an in rem adverse possession action to quiet title will “undermine the autonomy, territorial integrity, and resources of Indian tribes throughout the nation,” the tribe that lost the ruling tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Jan. 22 brief (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Sharline Lundgren, et vir, No. 17-387, U.S. Sup.)....