Legal Opinion
South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 2, 1986No. 84-782PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
At issue in this litigation is the right to possession of a “Tract of Land of Fifteen Miles square” described in a 1763 treaty between the King of England and the Catawba Head Men and Warriors.1 The tract, comprising 144,000 acres and 225 square miles, is located near the northern border of South Carolina; some 27,000 persons now claim title to different parcels within the tract. The specific question presented to us is whether the State’s statute of limitations applies to the Tribe’s claim. The answer depends on an interpretation of a statute enacted by Congress in 1959 to authorize a…
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