Tribe Petitions Supreme Court Over Bankruptcy Code Waiver Of Immunity

(September 19, 2022, 4:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided ruling by the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the U.S. Bankruptcy Code “unequivocally” abrogates Indian tribes’ sovereign immunity should be vacated because the holding “deepens an acknowledged circuit conflict” and “flouts” U.S. Supreme Court precedents on tribal sovereign immunity, a Wisconsin tribe in a payday lending case tells the high court in a Sept. 8 petition for a writ of certiorari....