Judge: Tribe Not Needed In Manager’s Suit Over Casino Operating In Pandemic

Mealey's (December 2, 2020, 1:00 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California Indian tribe is not an indispensable party to an action by the former general manager of its casino, who says he was constructively discharged when the casino operators decided to reopen the casino during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the operators is not a proper party and is dismissed from the suit, a California federal judge held Dec. 1 (Darrell Pilant v. Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC, et al., No. 20-2043, S.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 224717)....