Citing sovereign immunity and a lack of standing because of a dispute between different factions within an American Indian tribe, the state of Connecticut has filed a motion seeking to dismiss a $610 million lawsuit over land the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation claims was illegally seized between 1801 and 1918.
The tribe’s lawsuit filed in October claims Connecticut owes it $610 million in damages for land taken from its northwestern Connecticut reservation hundreds of years ago. In its motion to dismiss filed in Hartford Superior Court on Tuesday, the state argues the court has no choice but to dismiss the case on two grounds: the tribe has no standing and Connecticut has sovereign immunity.
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