Legal Opinion
Hopi Tribe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 2, 2015No. 2014-5018PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, Circuit Judge.
The Hopi Tribe filed suit against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims seeking damages to cover the cost of providing safe drinking water on the Hopi Reservation. In order to invoke the trial court’s jurisdiction, the Hopi Tribe must identify a statute or regulation imposing a specific obligation on the United States to provide adequate drinking water that would give rise to a claim for money damages. Because the Court of Federal Claims properly concluded that the Hopi Tribe failed to identify any source for a money-mandating obligation, we affirm.
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