Legal Opinion
Mohegan Tribe v. State of Connecticut
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 27, 1981No. 73, Docket 80-7348PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether the Nonintercourse statute, 1 which, since 1790, has prohibited the sale of Indian land unless conveyed by a treaty approved by the federal government applies to land throughout the United States. The appeal arises out of a suit brought against the State of Connecticut in the District Court for Connecticut by the Mohegan Tribe of Indians to regain possession of some 2,500 acres of land in the Town of Montville, Connecticut. In its defense, the State of Connecticut filed a motion to dismiss the suit on the ground that the…
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