Ransom v. Babbitt

How courts have described this case

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

• holding BIA acted arbitrarily and capriciously where it disregarded the plain language of the tribe’s constitution
• chastising the Department for “merely repeating the rhetoric of tribal exhaustion and federal noninterference with tribal affairs,” rather than determining the legitimacy of a disputed tribal government
• BIA “took steps to frustrate the will of the Tribe and to support the Constitutional regime.”
• “In situations of federal-tribal government interaction where the federal government must decide what tribal entity to recognize as the government, it must do so in harmony with the principles of tribal self-determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).