151580P.pdf   06/01/2016  Sheldon Wolfchild  v.  Redwood County
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1580
                          and No:  15-2375
                          and No:  15-3225
                          and No:  15-3277
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bright, Author, with Wollman and Loken, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case -Indian law. The long and complicate history of this case and 
   plaintiffs' attempt to claim title to twelve square miles of land in South 
   Minnesota is set out in Wolfchild v. United States, 731 F.3d 1280 (Fed. 
   Circ. 2013), cert. denied, 134 S.Ct 1516 (2014). The district court did 
   not err in finding plaintiffs failed to state a claim under the federal 
   common law as set out in Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida, 414 
   U.S. 661 (1974) and its progeny; the Act of February 16, 1863 does not 
   create a private right of action to members or descendants of the loyal 
   Mdewakanton Sioux; the district court erred in imposing sanctions against 
   the plaintiffs as they set made good-faith, non-frivolous arguments 
   distinguishing, calling for modifications or extensions of existing law; 
   remanded for a determination of whether defendants are entitled to costs 
   under Rule 54(d) and 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1920.