Legal Opinion
Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians' Tribal Council v. City of Palm Springs
District Court, C.D. California
Decided May 17, 1972No. 71-767-JWCPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CURTIS, District Judge.
This is an action for declaratory relief, seeking the settlement of a long standing controversy between the Tribal Council of the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians and the municipal officers of the City of Palm Springs over whether the City’s zoning laws are directly applicable to Indian Reservation lands, allotted and unallotted, even though they are held in trust by the United States. The City has maintained that since the adoption of Public Law 280 (Act of August 15, 1953, ch. 505; 67 Stat. 589, as amended; 18 U.S.C. § 1162; 28 U.S.C. § 1360),…
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