Ellen Moose v. United States of America

674 F.2d 1277

Ellen MOOSE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v.

UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

No. 80-4373.

United States Court of Appeals,

Ninth Circuit.

Argued and Submitted Dec. 14, 1981.

Decided April 19, 1982.

Donald K. Pope, Reno, Nev., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Maria Iizuka, Washington, D. C., argued, for defendants-appellees; B. Mahlon Brown, U. S. Atty., Reno, Nev., on brief.

Before PREGERSON and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and HALBERT, District Judge.*

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

1

Appellants are Indian children, members of the Southern Paiute tribe, who assert that the…