Legal Opinion
Stanley Johnson v. The Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Indian Reservation, Washington
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 4, 1973No. 73-1200PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRASK, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Western District of Washington granting defendant-ap-pellee’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The court concluded that “the matters alleged in the complaint relate to a strictly intra-tribal matter.”
The appellant, Stanley Johnson, is an enrolled member of the Lower Elwha Tribal Community, an Indian tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 25 U.S.C. § 476, (Wheeler-Howard Act) and located on land purchased by the United States in 1936 and 1937. This land was proclaimed to be the…
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