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Article: SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY FOR TRIBES IS A `GET OUT OF JAIL FREE' CARD.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 7, 1998
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When the Post-Intelligencer opines that Sen. Slade Gorton's bill to abolish Indian tribes' ability to avoid lawsuits on the grounds that the bill is ``a solution seeking a problem,'' the P-I proves that it lives in a different world from the rest of us.
The P-I writes that Indians should continue to share immunity from lawsuits just as the state of Washington and the local governments do. Don't P-I editors read the paper's own news columns describing the highly public trial against the state and the city of Wenatchee by victims of the notorious sexual abuse prosecutions of a few years ago? The state and counties and cities don't have sovereign immunity when they ...