Lewis v. Danos

How courts have described this case

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• holding that county could not enforce its excise tax on sales of reservation land
• holding that the General Allotment Act (“GAA”) permitted Yakima County to impose ad valorem taxes on reservation land patented in fee under the GAA
• noting that “platonic notions of Indian sovereignty ... have, over time, lost their independent sway.” (citations omitted)(intemal quotations omitted)
• stating that statutes are to be construed liberally in favor of Indian tribes and ambiguities should be resolved in their favor
• noting that “platonic notions of Indian sovereignty . . . have, over time, lost their independent sway.” (citations omitted)(internal quotations omitted)
• dissenting in part because there was no \unmistakably clear\ Congressional intent with regard to the lands which were not prematurely patented

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).