On October 9, 2025, the Washington Supreme Court held that tribal sovereign immunity cannot be abrogated through in rem jurisdiction over tribally owned non-reservation lands to vest the court with ...
OLYMPIA — The Washington Supreme Court upheld an appeals court ruling against a ranch involved in a land dispute with the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, which allegedly bought land that the ranch had ...
The North Fork Stillaguamish River in Washington, the namesake of the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians. (Walter Siegmund/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The Washington Supreme Court on ...
Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that tribal officials could not claim sovereign immunity or qualified immunity from potential liability for failure to remit taxes on cigarette sales ...
The court of appeals affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction. The court held that the Coeur d’Alene Tribe enjoyed no tribal sovereign immunity, under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, ...