Bay Mills Indian Community v. State

Plaintiff appeals as of right from orders granting summary disposition to defendants. As relevant to this appeal, plaintiff alleged that the state of Michigan and the Governor and his predecessors (defendants) wrongfully allowed plaintiff’s predecessors’ real property to be sold at tax sale in violation of the laws of the United States and the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the United States and Michigan Constitutions. We affirm.

factual background

In 1855, the United States entered into a treaty with plaintiff’s predecessors, reserving certain land for them in Chippewa County. On…