Legal Opinion
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 2010No. 09-14194, 09-14539PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, Circuit Judge:
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida (the Tribe) filed two lawsuits challenging the federal government’s plans to replace a mile of the ground-level Tamia-mi Trail (U.S. Highway 41) with a bridge, to increase the flow of water into Everglades National Park. The district courts dismissed the Tribe’s claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and we have consolidated the Tribe’s appeals of those decisions. The district courts concluded that language Congress inserted in a spending bill partially repealed the environmental laws that the Tribe was invoking. The…
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