Legal Opinion
Mashpee Tribe v. Watt
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 30, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-3205-SPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SKINNER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, on their own behalf and on behalf of the Mashpee tribe, bring this action to recover tribal lands allegedly conveyed by their ancestors in violation of the Constitution and federal statutes. 1 They allege that the United States Government, in failing to approve or prevent the conveyances, violated its trust responsibility to the Mashpee Indians, thereby depriving the plaintiffs of their property and the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Plaintiffs also allege that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by…
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