Legal Opinion
United States v. Joe and Wanda Kabinto, His Wife
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1972No. 26235PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from a summary judgment of ejectment declaring 16 Navajo Indians to be trespassers upon a portion of the Hopi Indian Reservation and enjoining them from using or occupying the land. We affirm.
The background of the litigation:
1. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur by executive order set aside a two and one-half million acre tract in northeastern Arizona for the use and occupancy of the Hopi Tribe “and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon”.
2. For many years thereafter the Hopi and Navajo Indians asserted conflicting claims to the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Commissioner v. SunnenSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Lone Wolf v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Johnson & Graham's Lessee v. McIntoshSupreme Court of the United States · 1823
- United States v. Santa Fe Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Clinton v. BabbittCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- David Joseph Red Fox v. Marcia Annett Red Fox, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, and Irene B. WellsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
- Dassinger v. OdenCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1979
- State v. CoffeeIdaho Supreme Court · 1976
- Sidney v. ZahCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
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