Supreme Court hears arguments over Michigan tribal casino

Detroit News – The future of a small northern Michigan casino took center stage Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that tests the limits of Native American sovereignty. Michigan Solicitor General John Bursch argued before the justices that the Bay Mills Indian Community, a tribe based in the Upper Peninsula, opened an illegal casino in northern Michigan and that the gaming facility should remain shuttered. The lawyer for the tribe, Neal Katyal, told the High Court that although the casino was opened off the tribe’s reservation, it should be considered Indian land and therefore immune from Michigan’s…