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OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF THE PINE RIDGE RES. v. BARTA

Civ. Nos. 600, 601.

146 F.Supp. 917 (1956)

OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S. D., and Frank G. Wilson, Plaintiffs, v. Albert J. BARTA, John E. Barta, and Charles K. Failing, Defendants. OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE OF THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S. D., and Frank G. Wilson, Plaintiffs, v. Clair COOMES and A. R. Davies, Defendants.

United States District Court D. South Dakota, W. D.

November 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. R. Hanley, of Hanley & Costello, Rapid City, S. D., and Richard Schifter, of Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried & Frank, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

John C. Farrar, of Gunderson, Farrar & Carrell, Rapid City, S. D., for defendants.

MICKELSON, Chief Judge.

The defendants in both of these cases have moved to dismiss the actions brought by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Frank G. Wilson, a member of said tribe and its president, in behalf of himself and all members of the tribe similarly situated, to collect a tax levied by the tribe upon non-members leasing tribal land. The defendants question the jurisdiction of this Court to entertain the actions. The plaintiff tribe was organized under the Indian...

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