BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JACKSON, KANSAS, v. UNITED STATES

Citation

308 U.S. 343 (1939)

Decision : 8-0

Majority Opinion: Felix Frankfurter

Justices Participating

• Charles Hughes | voted with the majority or plurality

• Felix Frankfurter | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Harlan Stone | voted with the majority or plurality

• Hugo Black | concurrence , justice wrote an opinion

• James McReynolds | concurrence

• Owen Roberts | voted with the majority or plurality

• Stanley Reed | voted with the majority or plurality

• William Douglas | concurrence

Categories

• Indian Agents/Administrative law
• Laches (statute of limitations)
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Plenary Power
• Sovereign immunity
• States/Authority of states
• Taxes
• Treaties
• Wardship/Trust

Cited Cases

• 264 U.S. 488 (1923), SPERRY OIL & GAS COMPANY et al. v. CHISHOLM et al.
• 251 U.S. 128 (1919), UNITED STATES v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, et al.
• 197 U.S. 488 (1904), MATTER OF HEFF
• 187 U.S. 553 (1902), LONE WOLF v. HITCHCOCK
• 263 U.S. 250 (1923), BUNCH v. COLE et al.
• 85 U.S. 84 (1873), STUART v. UNITED STATES
• 276 U.S. 431 (1927), LARKIN v. PAUGH et al.
• 254 U.S. 570 (1920), LA MOTTE et al. v. UNITED STATES
• 246 U.S. 263 (1917), MCCURDY, COUNTY TREASURER OF OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, et al. v. UNITED STATES
• 307 U.S. 1 (1938), CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES
• 280 U.S. 363 (1929), CARPENTER et al. v. SHAW, STATE AUDITOR OF OKLAHOMA
• 253 U.S. 17 (1919), WARD et al. v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
• 78 U.S. 616 (1870), THE CHEROKEE TOBACCO
• 241 U.S. 201 (1915), LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. MICKADIET AND TIEBAULT
• 224 U.S. 665 (1911), CHOATE v. TRAPP, SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION OF OKLAHOMA
• 163 U.S. 504 (1895), WARD v. RACE HORSE
• 232 U.S. 442 (1913), UNITED STATES v. PELICAN
• 302 U.S. 535 (1937), UNITED STATES v. MCGOWAN et al.
• 242 U.S. 371 (1916), DICKSON v. LUCK LAND COMPANY
• 188 U.S. 432 (1902), UNITED STATES v. RICKERT

Case Cited In

• 309 U.S. 506 (1939), UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO. et al.
• 318 U.S. 206 (1942), UNITED STATES v. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.
• 318 U.S. 705 (1942), BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS et al. v. SEBER et al.
• 439 U.S. 463 (1978), WASHINGTON et al. v. CONFEDERATED BANDS AND TRIBES OF THE YAKIMA INDIAN NATION
• 442 U.S. 653 (1978), WILSON et al. v. OMAHA INDIAN TRIBE et al.