Legal Opinion
Morton v. Ruiz
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 20, 1974No. 72-1052PublishedCited by 1,208 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
This case presents a narrow but important issue in the administration of the federal general assistance program for needy Indians:
Are general assistance benefits available only to those Indians living on reservations in the United States (or in areas regulated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska and Oklahoma), and are they thus unavailable to Indians (outside Alaska and Oklahoma) living off, although near, a reservation?
The United States District Court for the District of Arizona answered this question favorably to petitioner, the Secretary of the Interior, when, without opinion and on…
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