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042309P.pdf 09/06/2005 State of SD v. Dept. of Interior
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-2309
District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED][Wollman, Author, with Lay and Hansen, Circuit
Judges]
Civil case - Indian law. District court's order granting summary
judgment to the Department of the Interior upholding the Secretary of the
Interior's decision to use his authority based on Section 5 of the Indian
Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. Sec. 456, to take certain land into trust for
the Lower Brule Tribe is affirmed.