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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2001

If someone falls down at a casino or other business on a reservation, it's the tribe's fault but nothing can be done about it.

Or that's at least the picture being painted by Newsday in a piece about a woman's injuries sustained during a visit to the Mohegan Reservation in Connecticut. Employees, said the aggrieved, weren't too comforting of her injuries and said she might not get much compensation if she sought legal action.

The paper ties the treatment to sovereign immunity but doesn't directly point out how employee action is related to tribal sovereignty. Off-reservation businesses, too, are loathe to admit liability claims but the issue isn't discussed.

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On Indian Reservations, A Different Set of Laws (Newsday 11/28)