Johnnie Louis McAlpine v. United States of America and Bureau of Indian Affairs

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• finding Secretary of the Interior’s discretionary decision to acquire land was reviewable based on regulation prescribing list of seven factors to consider when exercising discretion
• landowner may seek review of Secretary of the Interior’s denial of application to take land into trust status under Indian Reorganization Act
• “[R]egulations promulgated by an administrative agency in carrying out its statutory mandate can provide standards for judicial review of agency action.”
• “[T]he Secretary’s decision regarding trust land acquisitions is the type of administrative agency action over which the federal courts have traditionally exercised reviewing authority under the APA.”
• “[T]he APA establishes a strong presumption in favor of reviewability of agency action.”

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