PER CURIAM.
Petitioners Billy Cypress and Dexter Lehtinen, officials of the Miccosukee Tribe, seek certiorari review of the trial court's discovery order setting their depositions. We grant certiorari, finding that sovereign immunity protects petitioners.
Florida state courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over a Native American tribe unless the tribe has expressly consented to suit or Congress has waived the tribe's sovereign immunity to civil actions...
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