Legal Opinion
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 14, 1955No. 43PublishedCited by 150 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
This case rests upon a claim under the Fifth Amendment by petitioner, an identifiable group of American Indians of between 60 and 70 individuals residing in Alaska, for compensation for a taking by the United States of certain timber from Alaskan lands allegedly belonging to the group.1 The area claimed is said to contain over 350,000 acres of land and 150 square miles of water. The Tee-Hit-Tons, a clan of the Tlingit Tribe, brought this suit in the Court of Claims under 28 U. S. C. § 1505. The compensation claimed does not arise from any statutory direction to pay. Payment, if it can be…
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3Cited by150 opinions
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