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· 6/11/1986

United States v. Mottaz

Citations

  • 476 U.S. 834
  • 106 S. Ct. 2224
  • 90 L. Ed. 2d 841
  • 1986 U.S. LEXIS 55
  • 54 U.S.L.W. 4641

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that suits involving an Indian's interests and rights in a previously issued allotment or patent do not require the United States to be a party
  • holding that suits involving an Indian’s interests and rights in a previously issued allotment or patent do not require the United States to be a party
  • holding that the statute of limitations for the Quiet Title Act applies to Indians as well as to other litigants
  • holding that an APA suit alleging that a governmental decision is arbitrary and capricious can be “a quiet title action sufficient to invoke the Quiet Title Act.”
  • holding that an APA suit alleging that a governmental decision is arbitrary 16 and capricious can be “a quiet title action sufficient to invoke the Quiet Title Act.”
  • observing that “[w]hen the United States consents to be sued, the terms of its waiver of sovereign immunity describe the extent of the court’s jurisdiction”

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Judges: Blackmun

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