Justices Asked To Weigh In On Church’s Sovereign Immunity Row With Florida Tribe

(December 15, 2020, 8:21 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Florida Indian tribe should not be allowed to use sovereign immunity to shield it from claims that it violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) when tribal police officers got involved in a long-running, off-reservation church leadership dispute, the church tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Nov. 27 petition for a writ of certiorari (Eglise Baptiste Bethanie de Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al., No. 20-791, U.S. Sup.)....