Legal Opinion
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Kempthorne
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 8, 2019No. Civil Action No. 2003-1603Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, Plaintiff, Vv. Civil Action No. 03-01603 (TFH) DAVID BERNHARDT, Secretary of the Interior, ef al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This long-pending case began in 2003 when the Yankton Sioux Tribe (hereinafter “the Tribe”) sued the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Treasury to obtain a declaratory judgment that the Government “ha[s] not provided the Tribe with a full and complete accounting of the Tribe’s trust funds as require[d] by law,” and an injunction requiring the Government to account for…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Nken v. HolderSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Santa Clara Pueblo v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Citizen Band of Potawatomi Tribe of Okla.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Blatchford v. Native Village of NoatakSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Sherley v. SebeliusCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2011
24 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.