Legal Opinion
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. The United States, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Chickasaw Nation v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 5, 1997No. 95-5055, 95-5056PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
These cases * test the limit of a trial court’s discretion to stay its proceedings. Before the United States Court of Federal Claims, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and the Chickasaw Nation (the Tribes) seek damages from the United States for its alleged failure to manage certain tribal lands. Finding that it could not adjudicate the Tribes’ claims until ownership in the tribal lands is conclusively fixed, the trial court indefinitely stayed its proceedings pending the prosecution of quiet title actions in a separate forum. Because the…
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