Legal Opinion
Charrier v. Bell
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided September 9, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-1010PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, Leonard Charrier, brought this action in the 20th Judicial District for the Parish of West Feliciana, Louisiana, seeking relief under Louisiana law in the form of a declaratory judgment and quantum meruit damages. The case involves ownership of artifacts discovered by plaintiff in an Indian burial ground near Tunica, Louisiana. The artifacts were apparently deposited as grave goods and funerary offerings by the Tunica Indians who lived at the site known as Trudeau Plantation in the 18th and 19th centuries. Plaintiff sued the alleged owners of the land,…
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- Oneida Indian Nation v. County of OneidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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