December 08, 2016
In a brief order, an Eleventh Circuit panel on Thursday rejected a rehearing bid from a former employee of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians' health department who had argued that the tribe should not be shielded from her age discrimination suit by sovereign immunity.
November 08, 2016
A former employee of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians' health department pressed the Eleventh Circuit on Monday to reconsider tossing her age discrimination suit, arguing that the tribe should not be shielded from her claims by sovereign immunity.
October 19, 2016
The Eleventh Circuit refused to revive an age discrimination suit brought by a former employee of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians' health department, finding her arguments that the tribe is not shielded by sovereign immunity unpersuasive in a precedential ruling Tuesday.
July 20, 2016
A former employee of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians told the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday that the tribe can't claim sovereign immunity to her age discrimination claims, arguing that Congress intentionally took away the tribe's immunity to suit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
May 05, 2016
A former employee of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians who sued the tribe without counsel for alleged age discrimination has lawyered up and on Wednesday appealed an Alabama federal judge's ruling that the tribe was shielded by sovereign immunity, saying Congress didn't intend to protect tribes from claims like hers.