Legal Opinion
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Southern Missouri Waste Management District
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 24, 1996No. 95-2647PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
This ease raises questions about the extent to which an 1894 act of Congress affected the reservation of the Yankton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. That statute ratified and incorporated an 1892 agreement between the tribe and the United States. The tribe brought this declaratory judgment action to enforce its claimed right to approve and regulate a landfill site over which the state claims jurisdiction on the basis that the 1894 statute disestablished or diminished the Yankton reservation. After a trial the dis*1442trict court1 ruled that the site was still part of the Yankton…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Colautti v. FranklinSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead ReservationSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- DeCoteau v. District County Court for the Tenth Judicial DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Lone Wolf v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
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3Cited by13 opinions
- South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Yankton Sioux Tribe v. GaffeyDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1998
- Yankton Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1996
- Yankton Sioux Tribe, and Its Individual Members, United States of America, on Its Own Behalf and for the Benefit of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Intervenor v. Matt Gaffey, States Attorney of Charles Mix County Herman Peters, Member of the Charles Mix, South Dakota,.counnty Commission Bruce Bakken,member of the Charles Mix, South Dakota, County Commission Jack Soulek, Member of the Charles Mix, South Dakota, County Commission, William Janklow, Governor of South Dakota Mark W. Barnett, Attorney General of South Dakota,defendants. Gary Beeson, Landowner City of Dante City of Geddes City of Lake Andes City of Pickstown City of Platte City of Ravinia City of Wagner Harvey P. Weisser, Doing Business as Weisser Oil Co., Inc., Individually, Amici on Behalf OfCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1999
- State v. GregorSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1997
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