United States Ninth Circuit

In a case brought by the Kawaiisu, a non-federally recognized Native American group, asserting title to the Tejon Ranch, one of the largest continuous expanses of private land in California, the district court's dismissal is affirmed where: 1) it properly determined that the Tribe had no ownership interest in the Tejon Ranch and that no reservation was established; and 2) the claims against Kern County were subsumed into the Tejon Ranch ownership determination, while the claims asserted against the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, and plaintiff's individual claims, were waived for failure to assert them on appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2015
• Published 06/22/2015

Judges

• THOMAS

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel