21.   In earlier rulings, the Supreme Court has upheld tribal sovereign immunity from attack.

22.   Indeed, the question of jurisdiction and sovereign immunity was taken up by both sides.

23.   Last year, Gorton attached a rider to a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would have eradicated tribal sovereign immunity.

24.   Little Six, though, argued that the company was protected from the suit by the sovereign immunity granted to the Indian tribe.

25.   Michigan, North Carolina and other states had argued that they were shielded from such lawsuits by the doctrine of sovereign immunity.

26.   Once again his target is tribal sovereign immunity.

27.   One question that may have to be settled, the title companies said, is whether the state property is protected by a legal principle known as sovereign immunity.

28.   Pinochet won his first legal battle to overcome the charges in a ruling by the High Court that upheld his claim to sovereign immunity.

29.   Pinochet won his first legal battle to overcome the charges in a ruling by the High Court, which upheld his claim to sovereign immunity.

30.   Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., is once again attacking American Indian tribal sovereign immunity and self-determination.