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Student Guest Blog: Sovereignty Can Leave Non-Tribal Members in Legal Limbo

Jul 3 2012
Note by Kathryn: Today's guest blog post, written by one of the students in Kathryn's Indian Gaming Law course, is by third-year law student Maggie Eyre.

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe, like other tribes, are facing issues regarding sovereign immunity.  Each tribe has to determine whether sovereign immunity should be used as a sword or a shield.