Legal Opinion
White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 7, 1984No. 81-5348PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether Pinetop Logging Company (“Pinetop”) and the White Mountain Apache Tribe (the “Tribe”) have stated a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 19831 for which attorneys’s fees are available under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1976).2
I
The facts of this case are set out more fully in White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker, 448 U.S. 136, 100 S.Ct. 2578, 65 L.Ed.2d 665 (1980). In brief, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, which inhabits a reservation in Arizona, organized a tribal enterprise to harvest timber. In 1969 the…
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