7th Circuit: Tribal Immunity Bars Employment Claims Against Health Center

(July 10, 2023, 1:22 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A health center and five of its employees are entitled to tribal sovereign immunity against claims of retaliation brought by a former employee who alleged that she was fired for whistleblowing because the center is an “arm of the tribe” that established it, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming a Wisconsin federal judge’s decision to grant the center and its employees’ motion to dismiss....