SIMMONS ET AL.

v.

SEELATSEE, CHAIRMAN OF THE YAKIMA TRIBAL COUNCIL, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Morton v. Mancari, 417 U.S. 535 (U.S. 1974)
  …Title of the United States Code (25 U. S. C.) would be effectively erased and the solemn commitment of the Government toward the Indians would be jeopardized. See [*553] Simmons v. Eagle Seelatsee, 244 F. Supp. 808, 814 n. 13 (ED Wash. 1965), aff’d, 384 U. S. 209 (1966). It is in this historical and legal context that the constitutional validity of the Indian preference is to be determined. As discussed above, Congress in 1934 determined that proper fulfillment of its trust required turning over to the Indi…

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• Del. Tribal Bus. Comm. v. Weeks, 430 U.S. 73 (U.S. 1977)
  …best or most efficient use for which tribal funds should be employed. Sizemore v. Brady, 235 U. S. 441, 449 (1914). Thus, Congress may choose to differentiate among groups of Indians in the same tribe in making a distribution, Simmons v. Seelatsee, 384 U. S. 209 (1966), aff’g 244 F. Supp. 808 (ED Wash. 1965), or on the other hand to expand a class of tribal beneficiaries entitled to share in royalties from tribal lands, United States v. Jim, [*85] supra, or to devote to tribal use mineral rights under allot…
• Groundhog v. Keeler, 442 F.2d 674 (10th Cir. 1971)
  …cause it is obviously without merit or because its unsoundness so clearly results from the previous decisions of this court as to foreclose the subject. * * * ” . See Simmons et al. v. Eagle Seelatsee, Chairman of the Yakima Tribal Council, et al., 384 U.S. 209, 86 S.Ct. 1459, 16 L.Ed.2d 480. . See case cited in note 4, supra. . Fortson v. Morris, 385 U.S. 231, 234, 87 S.Ct. 446, 17 L.Ed.2d 330. . Wells v. United States, 9 Cir., 280 F. 2d 275, 277.…