Legal Opinion
Nevada v. United States
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided September 6, 2002No. CV-N-01-058-ECR-RAMPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
BACKGROUND
This case presents a challenge to P.L. 101-618 by the State of Nevada. Congress enacted P.L. 101-618 in 1990 to settle the claims of the Fallon-Paiute Shoshone Indians for failure to carry out various obligations concerning land and water allotments. S. Rep. 101-555, 104 Stat.3289 (1990). The following explanation is taken from that legislative history.
The 1887 General Allotment Act provided for public domain allotments of land to the Shoshone and Paiute Indian Tribes. These allotments were located in the area that was designated to become…
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