Members of the Tlingit Nation v. United States

These cases come to the court on defendant’s motions to dismiss on the ground that the court is without jurisdiction for the reason that certain conditions set forth in the special jurisdictional act, which the plaintiffs were to comply with *210before suits were brought, were not complied with, and, therefore, the court is without jurisdiction to hear the cases.

The jurisdictional act is the same for both tribes. In both cases the allegations of the petitions are the same, raising the jurisdictional point. Therefore, we have not considered it necessary to write two opinions but are combining the…