Ashley v. United States Department of Interior

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Vernon Ashley and over one hundred other members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe appeal the district court’s- decision to dismiss their complaint. The district court concluded that the plaintiffs lacked standing because they could not establish an injury in fact and had failed to join an indispensable party. We too hold that the plaintiffs lack standing, but for a different reason: a judgment in their favor is not likely to remedy the harms about which they complain.

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Congress created a trust fund for the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe with the Crow Creek Sioux…