Navajo Nation v. MacDonald

AMENDED FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, OPINION AND ORDER

INTRODUCTION

This matter having come for hearing on May 2-4, 1989, on Plaintiffs’ Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief, this Court having heard only the Plaintiffs’ evidence (Defendants presented no evidence at trial) and the parties’ legal arguments on the issue of whether the Navajo Tribal Council’s act of placing Chairman Peter MacDonald and Vice Chairman Johnny R. Thompson on Administrative leave with pay is valid, the Court makes the following Findings, Opinion and Order:

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. At trial, Plaintiffs…