UNITED STATES v. LONG ELK

Nos. CR75-1008, CR75-1024, CR75-1026, CR75-1027, CR75-1028, CR75-1034 and CR75-1035.

410 F.Supp. 1174 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Chauncey Wesley LONG ELK, Jr., Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Ralph Emeron TAKEN ALIVE, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Clarence Lorin PAY PAY, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Donald Dean MARTIN, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Adolph HEPPER, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Daris Alfred JANIS, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Dakota, N. D.

April 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Clayton, U.S. Dist. Atty., D.S.D., and Robert D. Hiaring, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sioux Falls, S.D., for plaintiff.

Jerald M. McNeary, Aberdeen, S.D., for defendant Long Elk.

Donald L. Gellhaus, Aberdeen, S.D., for defendant Taken Alive.

John L. Maynes, Aberdeen, S.D., for defendant Pay Pay.

Arend E. Lakeman, Mobridge, S.D., for defendant Martin.

Tom D. Tobin, Winner, S.D., Charles Rick Johnson, Gregory, S.D., for defendant Hepper.

Kennith L. Gosch, Aberdeen, S.D., for defendant Janis.

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D.C., for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

NICHOL, Chief Judge.

This memorandum addresses motions to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction filed by six named defendants charged by separate indictments.1 All parties agree that the sole issue raised by the motions to dismiss is whether the Act of February 14, 1913, c. 54, 37 Stat. 675, terminated and returned to the public domain all unallotted land embraced within the eastern portion of the Standing Rock...

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