United States v. Obligacion

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• Court of Claims has jurisdiction to hear cases alleging violation of termination statutes
• expressly distinguishing between a claim that a federal official contravened a gov erning statute from a claim that Congress itself breached a trust duty by enacting a constitutional statute
• “[I]t has also been established for at least seventy years that Congress has the unilateral and plenary power ... to abrogate or modify, by statute, a prior treaty with Indians.”
• “Unless the Department violated the Constitution or some outstanding directive of Congress, the United States cannot be held hable for Interior’s affirmative actions or passive omissions with respect to the passage and implementation of the Termination Act.”
• congressional breach of trust or “Basic” claim

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