Legal Opinion
Karuk Tribe of California v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided August 6, 1998No. Nos. 90-3993L, 91-1432L, 92-173LPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MARGOLIS, Judge.
In this consolidated action, plaintiffs, the Karuk Tribe of California (“Karuk”), the Yurok Indian Tribe (“Yurok”), and individual Indians led by Carol McConnell Ammon (“Ammon Group”), move for summary judgment, claiming that the 1988 Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act, 25 U.S.C. § 1300i et seq., effected a Fifth Amendment taking of their property interests in the former Hoopa Valley Reservation (“Reservation”). All plaintiffs rely upon the Act of April 8, 1864, 13 Stat. 39, as the basis for their vested property claims. Plaintiffs further point to actions of defendant, the…
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Karuk Tribe of California v. Carol McConnell Ammon, Leslie Ammon, Elsie McCovey Bacon, Julia Lauretta Bartow, Ollie Roberts Foseide, Bonita Bacon Green, Janice M. Green, Dorothy Williams Haberman, Richard L. Haberman, Evelina Hoffman, Mary Gist Jackson, Martin Kinder, Sr., Rachel L. Knight, Ernest Lewis, Jr., Annie Mitchell Love, Ardith McConnell Michael McConnell Robert B. McConnell Walter C. McKinnon Thelma W. McLaughlin Steven J. Metcalfe, Edward E. Mitchell, Veta Gillespie Mitchell, Gertrude v. Mollier, Edward Moore David E. O'neill, Herbert L. O'neill, Barbara E. Orcutt, Lawrence E. Orcutt, David Eric Severns, Maria E. Tripp, and Kathryn Ichelson Wild,plaintiffs-Appellants, and Yurok Indian Tribe v. United States, and Hoopa Valley TribeCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2000
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