Tribal Immunity For Tort Claims Not Properly Before Court, Injured Parties Say

(June 25, 2018, 8:25 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alabama Supreme Court correctly relied on U.S. Supreme Court authority in finding that an Indian tribe is not protected by sovereign immunity from tort claims in a car crash negligence suit, and the tribe’s reliance on older court cases in support of tribal immunity fails, two people injured in the crash tell the nation’s top justices in a June 8 opposition brief (Poarch Band of Creek Indians, et al. v. Casey Marie Wilkes, et al., No. 17-1175, 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2237)....