Legal Opinion
Arenas v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 29, 1944No. 463PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The petitioner Arenas is a full-blood Mission Indian, regularly enrolled in the Agua Caliente or Palm Springs Band. He sued in the United States District Court to be awarded a trust patent to certain lands on the Palm Springs Reservation. The Government was granted a summary judgment of dismissal on affidavits and on the record of the St. Marie litigation on like claims by similarly situated Indians. No findings have been made in this case by the District Court. The Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, 2 chiefly in reliance upon its previous decision in the St. Marie case, and we granted…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Perkins v. ElgSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- United States v. PayneSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- St. Marie v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
- St. Marie v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1938
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- Arnstein v. PorterCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1946
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- Doehler Metal Furniture Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945
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