Legal Opinion
Carcieri v. Kempthorne
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 9, 2005No. 03-2647PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EN BANC OPINION
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
The en banc court has convened to consider a series of issues concerning the relative powers of the federal Secretary of the Interior, the State of Rhode Island, and the Narragansett Tribe over a parcel of land taken into trust and designated for Indian housing. The case is in many ways a proxy for the State’s larger concerns about its sovereignty vis-a-vis federal and tribal control over lands within the state.
In 1998, the Secretary of the Interior agreed to take into unreserved trust for the Tribe’s benefit a 31- or 32-acre parcel in Charlestown, Rhode…
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