Fired Tribal Employee Says Constitution Trumps Tribal Sovereign Immunity

(May 11, 2017, 8:03 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dismissal of a woman’s age discrimination claim against an Alabama Indian tribe based on the tribe’s sovereign immunity should be reversed because the ruling deprives her of rights guaranteed to her by the U.S. Constitution, the woman argues in a March 1 U.S. Supreme Court petition for certiorari (Christine J. Williams v. Poarch Band of Creek Indians, No. 16-1324, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1541)....