United States DC Circuit

In Plaintiff Indian tribe's action to quiet title to certain lands, dismissal of the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed, where the District Court properly dismissed the action without permitting jurisdictional discovery because Plaintiff failed to specify what facts such discovery would produce.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2008
• Decided 03/17/2009
• Published 03/17/2009

Judges

• Before: GINSBURG, TATEL and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert C. Seldon argued the cause for appellant.   With him on the briefs was Molly E. Buie.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jane M. Lyons, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   On the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and R. Craig Lawrence and Charlotte A. Abel, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.