Legal Opinion
Geronimo v. Obama
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 27, 2010No. Civil Action 09-303 (RWR)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RICHARD W. ROBERTS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, a group of twenty descendants of the Native American Gerónimo, have sued President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of the Army Peter Geren, Yale University, and the Order of Skull and Bones under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (“NAGPRA”), 25 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., seeking, among other things, an order under § 3002 requiring the defendants to return Geronimo’s remains and pay money damages. President Obama, Gates, and Geren (“federal defendants”) have moved to dismiss the…
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