Legal Opinion
Scholder v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1970No. 24306PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge.
The Indian appellants, Scholder and the class of individual Indians he represents and the Pala and Rincon Bands, brought suit challenging the authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to expend funds appropriated for Indian irrigation systems to build an irrigation lateral on non-Indian land within the Pala Indian Irrigation Project and to charge a pro rata portion of the construction cost to Indian lands in the project. Scholder is an Indian holder of a trust allotment within the Pala project who claims to represent all other Indian allottees within the project. The…
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