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112217P.pdf 04/06/2012 County of Charles Mix v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2217
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Pierre
[PUBLISHED] Murphy, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and
Ross, District Judge]
Civil case - Indian Law. Constitutional challenges to Section 5 of the
Indian Reorganization Act rejected; district court did not err in
determining it lacked jurisdiction to consider the County's argument that
a committee of the Yankton Sioux Tribe exceeded its authority when it
asked the Secretary of the Interior to take a parcel of land into trust;
Secretary's decision to acquire the land in trust was neither arbitrary nor
capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.