A legal battle between the state of Michigan and an Indian tribe over a casino has put the sovereign immunity of all Indian tribes at risk in the U.S. Supreme Court.

And one Indian law scholar, after extensively researching the history of and court precedents on the tribal sovereign immunity doctrine, recently concluded that the modern U.S. Supreme Court’s negative view of tribes’ historical immunity from lawsuits is simply wrong.

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