Legal Opinion
Frank B. James v. James G. Watt
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 1983No. 83-1026PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case are individual Indians who claim an interest in land on Gay Head Peninsula, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. In order to prevail, they must upset the present landowners’ chain of title by showing that certain conveyances made many years ago by the Gay Head Indian tribe (or by individual Indians) are invalid. The district court granted summary judgment against the plaintiffs, from which they appeal. We find that the district court was correct.
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The plaintiffs’ initial argument is based upon the Indian Nonintercourse Act (the INA) — a federal…
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