Justices Asked To Decide If Indian Tribes Are Immune From Tort Claims

(March 6, 2018, 8:08 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Alabama Supreme Court holding that a tribe is not protected by sovereign immunity from tort claims in a car crash negligence case cannot stand because it goes against years of U.S. Supreme Court guidance, the tribe and its casino authority tell the high court justices in a Feb. 16 petition for a writ of certiorari (Poarch Band of Creek Indians, et al. v. Casey Marie Wilkes, et al., No. 17-1175, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 680)....