Mealey's (May 24, 2019, 11:35 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alabama Supreme Court went against U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it held that an Indian tribe is not protected by tribal sovereign immunity from tort claims in a car crash negligence suit, but certiorari is not warranted at this time because the tribe has proposed to amend its laws to waive its immunity for such tort claims, the U.S. government says in a May 21 amicus curiae brief filed at the request of the nation’s high court (Poarch Band of Creek Indians, et al. v. Casey Marie Wilkes, et al., No. 17-1175, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1854)....