Legal Opinion
Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 1960No. 63PublishedCited by 276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Whittaker
The ultimate question presented by these cases is whether certain lands, purchased and owned in fee simple by the Tuscarora Indian Nation and lying adjacent to a natural power site on the Niagara River near the town of Lewiston, New York, may be taken for the storage reservoir of a hydroelectric power project, upon the payment of just compensation, by the Power Authority of the State of New York under a license issued to it by the Federal Power Commission as directed by Congress in Public Law 85-159, approved August 21, 1957, 71 Stat. 401.
The Niagara River, an international boundary stream…
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