Legal Opinion
Bordeaux v. Hunt
District Court, D. South Dakota
Decided November 14, 1985No. Civ. 82-3081PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DONALD J. PORTER, Chief Judge.
CASE SUMMARY
This case is one of thirteen filed in this court between December, 1982 and January, 1984, dealing with an identical issue: whether Indian land formerly held in trust for plaintiffs ancestor, but which had been unilaterally taken out of trust by the United States and subsequently alienated by plaintiffs ancestor approximately sixty years ago, should be recovered from its present possessors and returned to trust status for the benefit of the members of plaintiffs family.
The court, having been the recipient of extensive briefing by the parties and by…
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