Jicarilla Apache Nation, Formerly Jicarilla Apache Tribe 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.

• finding the BIA’s failure to “take into account the Nation’s budgetary needs” could only be “viewed as a plain and extended violation of defendant’s fiduciary duties”
• “Courts determine the amount of damages for such a breach by attempting to put the beneficiary in the position in which it would have been absent the breach.”
• “Courts determine the amount of damages for such a breach by attempting to put the beneficiary in the position in which it would have been absent the breach.”
• “[I]t is a principle of long standing in trust law that once the beneficiary has shown a breach of the trustee’s duty and a resulting loss, the risk of uncertainty as to amount of the loss falls on the trustee.”
• “[I]t is a principle of long standing in trust law that once the beneficiary has shown a breach of the 28 trustee’s duty and a resulting loss, the risk of uncertainty as to amount of the loss falls on the trustee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).