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MCGIRT v. OKLAHOMA

No. 18-9526.

140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020)

Jimcy MCGIRT, Petitioner v. OKLAHOMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided July 9, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian H. Gershengorn , Washington, DC, Riyaz A. Kanji for Muscogee (Creek) Nation, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, for Petitioner.

Solicitor General Mithun Mansinghani , Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, for Respondent.

Ian Heath Gershengorn , Zachary C. Schauf , Allison M. Tjemsland *, Jenner & Block LLP, 1099 New York Ave., NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Mike Hunter , Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mithun Mansinghani , Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Jennifer Crabb , Asst. Attorney General, Bryan Cleveland , Randall Yates , Asst. Solicitors General, Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General, 313 NE Twenty-First St., Oklahoma City, OK, R. Reeves Anderson , Arnold & Porter, Kaye Scholer LLP, 370 Seventeenth St, Suite 4400, Denver, CO, Allon Kedem , Sally L. Pei , Stephen K. Wirth , Samuel F. Callahan, Arnold & Porter, Kaye Scholer LLP, 601 Massachusets, Ave., NW, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

For U.S. Supreme Court briefs, see: 2020 WL 614995 (Pet.Brief) 2020 WL 1890617 (Reply.Brief) 2020 WL 583959 (Pet.Brief) 2020 WL 1478582 (Resp.Brief)

On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that their new lands in the West would be secure forever. In exchange for ceding "all their land, East of the Mississippi river," the U. S. government...

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