Damon v. MacDonald

Honorable Tom Tso, Judge presiding.

THE FACTS ON RECORD

This law suit comes to the court as a simple dispute between private individuals over who has the right to use lands owned by the Navajo Nation. It is brought to quiet title to lands which are the subject of separate and conflicting claims. However the suit is more complex because the parties, and one plaintiff who is a member of the Navajo Tribal Council, contend that certain legislative actions of the Advisory Committee were illegal.

The basic facts of the dispute are simple. The plaintiffs claim that in 1967 a gentleman by the name of…