CONROY v. CONROY

No. 77-1343.

575 F.2d 175 (1978)

Gerry CONROY, Appellant, v. Evelyn Sybil CONROY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Whiting, Rapid City, S. D., for appellant.

Mario Gonzalez, Martin, S. D., for appellee.

Maryann Walsh, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae, United States; James W. Moorman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Jacques B. Gelin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief.

Richard Schifter and Jay R. Kraemer of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, Washington, D. C., filed brief of amicus curiae, Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Before WEBSTER and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.


TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

The matter before us is an appeal, upon certification, of an interlocutory order granting partial summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff.1 Finding no merit in any of the issues raised, we affirm the judgment of the District Court and remand.

This case had its origins in a divorce action filed in the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation some eight years ago. Both...

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