Legal Opinion
Goodface v. Grassrope
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 31, 1983No. Nos. 83-1542, 83-1641PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
The controversy underlying these appeals concerns a dispute over a tribal election held by the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe on November 17, 1982. The district court, in a judgment filed April 22, 1983, directed that the defendant officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (hereinafter collectively referred to as the BIA) recognize the newly elected council as the governing body of the tribe over the rights of the 1980 council, which claimed that its successors had not been duly elected because the November election was invalid. This court temporarily stayed the district…
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