RICO Action Belongs In Federal Court, Not Tribal Court, Judge Rules

Mealey's (July 30, 2018, 2:05 PM EDT) -- BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal court, rather than a tribal court, is the proper venue for a woman’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act suit against a tribal health care center over her firing by the center, a U.S. judge in Montana found July 26 in rebuffing the tribal defendants’ motion to dismiss (Tammy Wilhite v. Awe Kualawaache Care Center, et al., No. 1:18-cv-80, D. Mont., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 125383)....