In Re: Order Amending Rule 574 of Pa Rules of Criminal Procedure

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• holding that state-law claim for possession of Indian tribal land is completely preempted by federal law
• holding that the test is whether right claimed is “so insubstantial, implausible, foreclosed by prior decision of this Court, or otherwise completely devoid of merit as not to involve a federal controversy.”
• holding that questions concerning the “possessory rights of Indian tribes to their aboriginal lands” arise under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1331
• explaining that, as a general rule, Indian tribes may not alienate their land without congressional consent
• explaining that, as a general rule, Indian tribes may not alienate their land without congressional consent
• holding that tribe prohibited from giving land to state without federal government’s approval

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