Perkins Coie attorneys were noted in coverage of the Supreme Court case Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Petitioner v. Sharline Lundgren et al.  

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The Lundgrens are represented by Eric D. Miller, Luke M. Rona, Jennifer A. MacLean, Charles G. Curtis Jr. and Lauren Pardee Ruben of Perkins Coie LLP.

03.21.2018 - Courthouse News Service, "High Court Grapples With Tribe’s Sovereign Immunity"

Eric Miller, an attorney for the Lundgrens at the Seattle firm Perkins Coie, argued that the tribe’s reading of its immunity to suit would create an enormous carve-out and give it enormous power no other entity enjoys.

“The discussion of sort of sovereignty can be a little bit abstract, but there’s a real practical reality underlying it, and that’s that, you know, every government and really every organized society has an interest in having some mechanism for determining who owns what pieces of land,” Miller said. “And the tribe’s position would create situations, you know, like this one where that’s impossible.”

Miller also argued there has been a historical exemption to sovereign immunity for immovable property, but this argument raised alarms for some justices, who were troubled that it was a major departure from the grounds on which the Washington Supreme Court decided the case.

03.16.2018 - Law.com Supreme Court Brief, "Brennan Papers: 'We Live and We Learn' | The Sides of March"

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