Legal Opinion
Tsosie v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided October 2, 1986No. 518-84LPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
YOCK, Judge.
In this case, the plaintiff, an Indian woman who is a member of the Navajo tribe, brings a claim under the Treaty of 1868 with the Navajos, 15 Stat. 667, and seeks damages for an alleged sexual assault upon her by an employee of the United States Public Health Service Hospital on the Navajo reservation at Shiprock, New Mexico.
Plaintiff initially filed her claim with the United States Department of the Interior and after denial of that claim, she brought her claim to this Court. The case is presently before the Court on defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a…
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