State v. Perank

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:

(dissenting).

I dissent. I cannot join the majority in interpreting a federal statute that affects the boundaries of the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation in a way which contradicts the construction approved by a majority of the entire United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. I find almost incredible *954the refusal of the majority of this court to accord comity to a federal court’s decision in an area in which the federal government has preeminent authority and a unique trust responsibility. A majority of this court has given the State of Utah what it has desperately…