Mitchell v. United States

In United States v. Mitchell, 445 U.S. 535 (1980), the Supreme Court reversed and remanded our prior decision in 219 Ct. Cl. 95, 591 F.2d 1300 (1979). We had held that plaintiff Indians could sue the United States for breach of trust relating to federal management of their forest properties, under the trust created in the General Allotment Act, 25 U.S.C. §§ 331-354, but the Supreme Court ruled, to the contrary, that the trust established by that Act did not extend to the management of the allotted lands.1 The case was remanded to this court to consider plaintiffs’ other grounds (which we had…