Connecticut’s Indian tribes scored a major legal victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court, as justices overturned a trial judge’s decision that would have allowed a Connecticut couple to sue a Mohegan Sun limousine driver who caused an accident on state property.
Connecticut’s tribal nations, including the Mohegans, have long claimed they are sovereign nations and enjoy immunity from many legal claims. And while state courts have agreed that the tribes can claim sovereignty in lawsuits targeting their casinos and other business interests, the trial judge ruled the same immunity claim could not be applied to a tribal employee as an individual.
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