Justices Say Tribal Worker Not Immune From Car Crash Suit

By Andrew Westney (April 25, 2017, 10:19 AM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the driver of a Mohegan Tribe-owned limousine doesn't share the tribe's sovereign immunity from a suit over an off-reservation car crash, saying the employee, rather than the tribe, was the true target of the negligence suit and the tribe's indemnification of the driver didn't extend tribal immunity to him....

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