Legal Opinion
Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1990No. 88-3922PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes (“the Tribes”) appeal from the district court’s dismissal of their suit, 686 F.Supp. 831, which the court found was barred by the six year statute of limitations imposed by 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) on all civil actions against the United States. The Tribes brought suit in 1987 to challenge the 1972 law that established the system for distributing a judgment entered by the Indian Claims Commission in 1967. We affirm the district court’s…
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