RYAN EDWARD SULLIVAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that no defense of laches or estoppel was 8 available against the Government when the Government acted as trustee for an 9 Indian tribe
• a 1956 case in which the court considered the validity of a 1908 (post-Winiers) agreement between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and white landowners in the Yakima Valley
• “Rights reserved by treaties such as this are not subject to appropriation under state law, nor has the state power to dispose of them.”
• “No defense of laches or estoppel is available to the defendants here for the Government,] as trustee for the Indian Tribe, is not subject to those defenses.”
• “No defense of laches or estoppel is available to the defendants here for the Government as trustee for the Indian Tribe, is not subject to those defenses.”
• “No defense of laches or estoppel is available to the defendants here for the Government[,] as trustee for the Indian Tribe, is not subject to those defenses.”

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