Red Lake Band v. United States

*327I.

This case, which the Indian Claims Commission transferred to this court pursuant to 90 Stat. 1990, 25 U.S.C. § 70v, is now before the court on review of a decision of the Commission dismissing a claim on the ground of collateral estoppel. In the dismissed claim, which seeks just compensation for an alleged fifth amendment taking of plaintiffs land, the plaintiff challenged a finding in an accounting report that $1,268,156.84, the amount the government obtained at auction and credited to the plaintiff for 256,152 acres of land sold pursuant to the Act of February 20,1904, ch. 161, 33 Stat.…