( January 25, 2024, 2:47 PM EST) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — Employees of the Yakama Nation and judges of the tribe’s courts are entitled to sovereign immunity from claims brought by a man who says the tribe and its judges are conspiring against him to deprive him of his parental rights because the tribe is the real party in interest, a Washington federal judge found in granting the tribe’s motion to dismiss on Jan. 24....