Can Tribal Employees Avoid Tort Claims?

Two people were injured in an off-reservation  auto accident with a Mohegan Tribe-owned limousine.  The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the tribe’s sovereign immunity protected the driver from tort claims arising from the accident.  Now the USSC has agreed to hear the case.  Two weeks ago, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that Native American tribes’ sovereign immunity does not shield tribal employees from tort claims brought against them in their individual capacities.  Law 360 has the story.