Board of Comm'rs of Jackson Cty. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Instead of choosing a rigid rule, the Court has drawn upon those flexible considerations of equity which are established sources for judicial law-making.”
• “state notions of laches and state statutes of limitations have no applicability to suits by the Government, whether on behalf of Indians or otherwise”
• defenses based on delay in bringing claims such as laches and estoppel are inapplicable to claims to enforce Indian rights
• defenses based on delay in bringing claims such as laches and estoppel are inapplicable to claims to enforce Indian rights
• “[SJtate notions of latches and statutes of limitations have no applicability to suits by the Government, whether on behalf of Indians or otherwise.” (citations omitted)
• “Nor are the federal courts restricted to the remedies available in state courts in enforcing . . . federal rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).