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MICCOSUKEE TRIBE v. LEWIS TEIN, P.L.

No. 3D16-2826.

227 So.3d 656 (2017)

MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS of Florida, Appellant, v. LEWIS TEIN, P.L., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion filed August 9, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saunooke Law Firm, P.A., and Robert O. Saunooke (Miramar); Alston & Bird LLP, George B. Abney , Daniel F. Diffley , and Michael J. Barry (Atlanta, Georgia), for appellant.

Colson Hicks Eidson, P.A., Curtis B. Miner , Roberto Martinez , and Stephanie Casey , for appellees.

Rice Pugatch Robinson Storfer & Cohen PLLC, and Craig A. Pugatch , for United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., as amicus curiae.

Before ROTHENBERG, C.J., and SCALES and LUCK, JJ.

"There are reasons to doubt the wisdom of perpetuating the doctrine" of tribal immunity. Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Mfg. Techs., Inc., 523 U.S. 751, 758, 118 S.Ct. 1700, 140 L.Ed.2d 981 (1998). It "can harm those who are unaware that they are dealing with a tribe, who do not know of...

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