REDDING RANCHERIA v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. C036723.

105 Cal.Rptr.2d 773 (2001)

88 Cal.App.4th 384

REDDING RANCHERIA, Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Shasta County, Respondent, Suzanne Hansard, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

Review Denied June 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rapport & Marston and David J. Rapport, Ukiah, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Dugan Barr & Associates, Redding, Douglas Mudford and J. Michael Favor, for Real Party in Interest.


MORRISON, J.

Here we hold an Indian tribe and its commercial entity are immune from an ordinary tort suit arising outside of Indian country.

Suzanne Hansard (plaintiff) sued Win River Casino and several Does in Shasta County Superior Court. She alleged she was working as a bartender at a Redding hotel, attending to a party "for defendant WIN RIVER and its employees, who had booked one of the facility's banquet rooms[.]" "[O]ne or more" of the employees threw...

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