Attorney’s Work Claims Against Tribe Properly Dismissed, 9th Circuit Says

Mealey's (April 24, 2019, 9:58 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court correctly found that an attorney’s employment bias claims against his former employer, an Arizona Indian tribe, fail due to issue and claim preclusion because the tribe’s courts already found that the claims are barred by sovereign immunity, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held April 19 (John T. Hestand v. Gila River Indian Community, et al., No. 17-16583, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 11470)....