Tribal Business Council’s Sovereign Immunity Won’t Be Considered By Supreme Court

(October 3, 2023, 11:52 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 2 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a member of an Indian tribe and her company that asserted that sovereign immunity does not bar the fraud and racketeering claims the two brought against an Indian tribe’s business council because the council waived its immunity in a mandatory arbitration clause in a joint venture agreement signed by the parties....