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Rolling the Dice: Eleventh Circuit Delineates the Limits of Tribal Sovereign Immunity

BY EAMON WELCH — Although Native Americans enjoy a substantial degree of sovereign immunity on their tribal lands, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently demonstrated that this immunity is not unqualified.  On October 15, 2012, in Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the […]