EDGAR BLATCHFORD, COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS OF ALASKA v. NATIVE VILLAGE OF NOATAK AND CIRCLE VILLAGE

Citation

501 U.S. 775 (1990)

Decision : 6-3

Majority Opinion: Antonin Scalia

Justices Participating

• Anthony Kennedy | voted with the majority or plurality

• Antonin Scalia | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Byron White | voted with the majority or plurality

• David Souter | voted with the majority or plurality

• Harry Blackmun | dissent , justice wrote an opinion

• John Stevens | dissent

• Sandra O’Connor | voted with the majority or plurality

• Thurgood Marshall | dissent

• William Rehnquist | voted with the majority or plurality

Categories

• Alaska
• Canons of Construction
• Domestic Dependent Nations
• Indian Agents/Administrative law
• Indianness/Identity
• Jurisdiction (other)
• Plenary Power
• Sovereign immunity
• States/Authority of states
• U.S. Constitution
• Wardship/Trust

Cited Cases

• 248 U.S. 78 (1918), ALASKA PACIFIC FISHERIES v. UNITED STATES
• 318 U.S. 705 (1942), BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS et al. v. SEBER et al.
• 425 U.S. 649 (1975), NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRIBE v. HOLLOWBREAST et al.
• 31 U.S. 515 (1832), SAMUEL A. WORCESTER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. THE STATE OF GEORGIA
• 498 U.S. 505 (1990), OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION v. CITIZEN BAND POTAWATOMI INDIAN TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA
• 411 U.S. 164 (1972), MCCLANAHAN v. ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION
• 270 U.S. 181 (1925), UNITED STATES v. MINNESOTA
• 204 U.S. 331 (1906), KANSAS v. UNITED STATES
• 224 U.S. 413 (1911), HECKMAN v. UNITED STATES
• 426 U.S. 373 (1975), BRYAN v. ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
• 425 U.S. 463 (1975), MOE, SHERIFF, et al. v. CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION et al.
• 30 U.S. 1 (1831), THE CHEROKEE NATION VS. THE STATE OF GEORGIA
• 224 U.S. 665 (1911), CHOATE v. TRAPP, SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION OF OKLAHOMA
• 463 U.S. 545 (1982), ARIZONA et al. v. SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE OF ARIZONA et al.
• 417 U.S. 535 (1973), MORTON, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, et al. v. MANCARI et al.
• 420 U.S. 194 (1974), ANTOINE et ux. v. WASHINGTON
• 72 U.S. 737 (1866), THE KANSAS INDIANS: THE CASE OF THE SHAWNEE TRIBE
• 118 U.S. 375 (1885), UNITED STATES v. KAGAMA & ANOTHER, INDIANS

Case Cited In

• 517 U.S. 44 (1995), SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA v. FLORIDA et al.
• 521 U.S. 261 (1996), IDAHO, et al. v. COEUR D’ALENE TRIBE OF IDAHO, ETC., et al.
• 523 U.S. 751 (1997), KIOWA TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA v. MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 572 U.S. 782 (2013), MICHIGAN v. BAY MILLS INDIAN COMMUNITY
• 581 U.S. 155 (2016), LEWIS v. CLARKE