Thorstenson v. Norton

ELR Citation: ELR 20049
No(s). 04-4029 (8th Cir. Feb 28, 2006)

The court upholds the dismissal of an individual's claims for money paid by his predecessors in the early 1970s for the purchase of tribal land held in trust by the U.S. government that was never conveyed. The individual's action to enforce the sales contract was precluded by a tribal court judgment...