Legal Opinion
Utah v. Babbitt
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 26, 1995No. Nos. 94-4062, 94-4063PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL J. KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Defendants-appellants appeal from the district court’s judgment in favor of Plaintiffs-appellees. Our jurisdiction arises under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and we affirm.
Background
Under the Act of March 1,1933 (“Act”), 47 Stat. 1418, as amended, 82 Stat. 121 (1968), the federal government took 552,000 acres of land from the public domain and added it to the Navajo Reservation. The Act provided that if “oil or gas [were] produced in paying quantities within the lands ... added to the Navajo Reservation, 37/6 per centum of the net royalties accruing therefrom derived from…
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