Sovereign Immunity From Suit ‘Well-Settled,’ Tribe Tells Supreme Court

(September 1, 2022, 11:46 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A challenge by a former employee of an Oregon Indian tribe to dismissal of her fraud claims against the tribe and tribal officials should be rejected because a California appellate court correctly relied on “well-settled areas of law” in finding the claims barred by tribal sovereign immunity, the tribe and officials argue in an Aug. 24 brief in opposition to the ex-worker’s U.S. Supreme Court petition....