Legal Opinion
Fletcher v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1997No. 95-5208PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Four individuals of Osage ancestry, some of whom were not entitled to vote in tribal elections or hold tribal office because they do not own an interest in the Osage mineral estate or headlight, brought this suit to challenge the validity of the franchise re- strietion and for a declaration on the validity of the Osage Constitution of 1881. Rather than reaching the merits of the complaint, the district court ordered (1) the formation of a constitutional commission to rework the form of the Osage government, (2) an expansion of the franchise to all lineal descendants of…
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