By Jennifer Weddle (June 5, 2018, 2:04 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court's restraint in its May 21, 2018, decision in Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren is appreciated in Indian Country. There, the court struck down a Washington Supreme Court ruling that the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe could not invoke its sovereign immunity to to end quiet title litigation in Washington state court, following the tribe's acquisition of a 40-acre plot of land, explaining that the U.S. Supreme Court precedent the Washington Supreme Court relied on — County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of Yakima Indian Nation (1992) — did not resolve tribal immunity issues and that the state court should consider an alternative argument raised late in the case....