When Louise Kizis had a trip-and-fall case against the Mohegan Sun casino resort, lawyers for the tribe fought all the way to the state Supreme Court to keep the case from going off the reservation.
The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, in an amicus brief, argued that non-Indians such as Kizis have a constitutional right to a state court trial if the defendants are tribal “employees” but not actual members of the tribe.
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