Tribe Says Settlement Will End Supreme Court Case Over Bankruptcy Row

(February 20, 2020, 11:37 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tribal parties in a year-old U.S. Supreme Court case asking whether Congress abrogated tribal sovereign immunity in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code received a ninth extension of their response brief deadline Feb. 12 after telling the court that a settlement of the dispute is awaiting a bankruptcy court’s final approval (Buchwald Capital Advisors, LLC v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al., No. 18-1218, U.S. Sup.)....