United States: Impact Of February 24, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court’s Carcieri v. Salazar Ruling

United States: Impact Of February 24, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court’s Carcieri v. Salazar Ruling   Today marks the three-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Carcieri v. Salazar (Carcieri) ruling.   In Carcieri, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA) limits the Interior Secretary’s authority to place land into trust to only those tribes that were “under federal jurisdiction” as of 1934. This ruling effectively reversed 75 years of practice that...

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