Harrah’s Arizona Corp. can’t use sovereign immunity to dodge race- and sex-based discrimination and retaliation claims from workers who lost their jobs after customers cheated at gambling tables they supervised.
The company’s contractual relationship with the Ak-Chin Indian Community doesn’t entitle it to borrow the federally recognized tribe’s sovereign immunity to avoid the claims of five fired workers—all non-White women—that White men whose table customers cheated kept their jobs, the US District Court for the District of Arizona said.
- Harrah’s operates and manages a tribal casino, but the company is formed under Arizona, not tribal, law, and its profits ...
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