States Tell High Court Tribal Sovereign Immunity Ruling Goes Too Far

(January 7, 2022, 8:52 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California court’s decision barring a quiet-title action against an Indian tribe because of its sovereign immunity warrants U.S. Supreme Court review because the ruling is “emblematic of lower federal courts’ tendency to treat tribes as superior to the States when it comes to sovereign immunity,” six other states say in a Dec. 15 amicus curiae brief in support of a petition for certiorari....