Legal Opinion
Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon v. Impson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 14, 2007No. 06-2733PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (“BIA”) approval of a lease of Passamaquoddy tribal land to a developer who wishes to construct a Liquified Natural Gas (“LNG”) terminal in part on that land. Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon 1 (“NN”), a group of tribe members who oppose construction of the LNG terminal, and several individual tribe members (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) challenge the district court’s dismissal of their case for lack of jurisdiction. After careful review, and based in large part on the BIA’s change of position on appeal regarding the…
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