WESTERN SHOSHONE LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. ASS'N v. U.S.

Appeal No. 3-75.

531 F.2d 495 (1976)

WESTERN SHOSHONE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, and Frank Temoke, Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES and the Western Shoshone Identifiable Group, Represented by the Temoak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians, Nevada, Appellees.

United States Court of Claims.

February 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Collard, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellants; John D. O'Connell, Salt Lake City, Utah, attorney of record.

Robert W. Barker, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for appellee Western Shoshone Identifiable Group; Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Donald C. Gormley and Steven C. Lambert, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Dean K. Dunsmore, Washington, D. C., with whom was Acting Asst. Atty. Gen. Walter Kiechel, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee The United States.

Before DAVIS, SKELTON and KUNZIG, Judges.


ON MOTION TO DISMISS APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION AND ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

DAVIS, Judge:

In August 1951 the Shoshones timely filed a petition with the Indian Claims Commission setting forth, among other claims, a cause of action on behalf of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nations (represented by plaintiff-appellee Temoak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians) for the taking without compensation of large acreage in Nevada...

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