Legal Opinion
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. United States
District Court, E.D. Oklahoma
Decided February 9, 2001No. CIV-99-92-SPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SEAY, District Judge.
Before the court for its consideration is the plaintiffs Cherokee Nation and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes’ motion for class certification and for approval of class notice. The court denies the motion for class certification for the following reasons.
I. Findings of Fact
1. The named plaintiffs are two Indian tribes that operate various Indian Health Services programs pursuant to contracts entered into under the Indian Self-Determination Act. A self-determination contract is a contract between the federal government and a tribe, under which a tribe takes over the…
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