Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe v. Donald Hodel, Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior

How courts have described this case

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

• \[T]he standard principles of statutory construction do not have their usual force in cases involving Indian law.\
• “[T]he standard principles of statutory construction do not have their usual force in cases involving Indian law.”
• “[T]he standard principles of statutory construction do not have their usual force in cases involving Indian law.”
• “[I]f [the relevant statute] can reasonably be construed as the Tribe would have it construed, it must be construed that way.”
• “It is contrary to common sense as well as sound statutory construction to read the later, more general language to incorporate the precise limitations of the earlier statute”
• “Where the words of a later statute differ from those of a previous one on the same or related, subject, the Congress must have intended them to. have a different .meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).