Holloman v. Watt

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1983-06-20

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PER CURIAM: The government appeals a judgment awarding damages to appellees for loss of tribal privileges arising out of acts of officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. We reverse. Appellees failed to carry their burden of showing congressional intent to waive the United States’ sovereign immunity. Appellees, the Holloman brothers and their cousins, the Emerson brothers, applied for enrollment as me…

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