Legal Opinion
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska v. Salazar
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 7, 2010No. 08-3277PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is part of a long-running dispute over whether the Secretary of the Interior (the “Secretary”) properly took a small tract of land into trust on behalf of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma. Because the Secretary has already taken the land at issue into trust, sovereign immunity precludes the relief sought by plaintiffs. Consequently, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.
I
We have previously described the underlying dispute in this matter and will recite only the details directly relevant to this appeal. 1 This ease arises from a dispute over the status…
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