United States First Circuit

Plaintiff-Indian Tribe's suit, seeking to recover land that they claim was wrongfully taken from the Tribe's ancestors, is dismissed where the claim is barred by the Rhode Island Indian Claims Settlement Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2005
• Published 02/11/2005

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and DiCLERICO, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lesley S. Rich, with whom Earl F. Pasbach, were on brief, for appellants., Katherine J. Barton, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Elizabeth A. Peterson, Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, and Suzanne Schaeffer, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, were on brief, for the United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Neil F.X. Kelly, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Patrick C. Lynch, Attorney General, Claire Richards, Special Counsel, Joseph Carroll, Woonsocket City Hall, Thomas Hefner and Fogarty & Hefner, were on brief, for appellees.