Seminole Official Awarded Immunity Due To ‘Impermissible Inference Stacking’

(June 29, 2020, 11:01 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A trial court wrongly stacked one inference atop another in declining to extend tribal sovereign immunity protection to a board member of a Seminole corporation, a Florida appeals court held June 24 in granting the official’s certiorari petition, finding that he is entitled to the same sovereign immunity that the other tribal officials in the case received (Larry Howard v. MMMG, LLC, et al., Nos. 4D19-3538, 4D19-3539, Fla. App., 4th Dist.)....

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