United States v. M.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that 9 Parcel 3 is not a dependent Indian community and is therefore not Indian country
• concluding that an Indian school was not set aside by the federal government for the use of Indians as Indian land because it failed to qualify as a dependant Indian community
• holding that land set aside for the use of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and administered by the BIA without any treaty, trust, or other obligation to any Native American group was not set aside for the use of Indians as Indian land
• \[I]t is clear that a culturally cohesive community exists in the Iyanbito chapter [of the Navajo Nation] as a whole.\
• “[T]here has never been a finding of a dependent Indian community unless the community at issue was located on tribal lands or land held in trust for Native Americans.”
• “[The preservation] 21 rule shall not preclude the appellate court from considering jurisdictional questions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).