Legal Opinion
Holloman v. Watt
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1983No. 82-3096PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Per curiam
The government appeals a judgment awarding damages to appellees for loss of tribal privileges arising out of acts of officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. We reverse. Appellees failed to carry their burden of showing congressional intent to waive the United States’ sovereign immunity.
Appellees, the Holloman brothers and their cousins, the Emerson brothers, applied for enrollment as members of the Colville Indian Tribe in 1966. After reviewing the blood degree quantums of appellees' ancestors as listed on the 1937 Tribal roll, the Tribal Council found each appellee possessed the requisite…
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