Split High Court Remands Suit Over Tribal Sovereign Immunity For Land Taking

Mealey's (May 21, 2018, 1:07 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 21, in a divided opinion, sent a property rights dispute between a Washington couple and an Indian tribe back to that state’s high court to decide whether an exception to tribal sovereign immunity from suit based on the “immovable property” doctrine should apply to the couple’s state court quiet title action (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Sharline Lundgren, et vir, No. 17-387, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 3085 )....