Eighth Circuit Rejects South Dakota’s Challenge to Sisseton Trust Acquisition on Standing Grounds

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From the CA8 website:

111745P.pdf 01/11/2012 State of South Dakota v. U.S. Department of Interior U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1745 U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota – Pierre [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case – Indian law. In an action by the State of South Dakota seeking to prevent the Secretary of the Interior from completing land-into- trust acquisitions, the State lacked standing to bring a constitutional due process claim, and the appeal is dismissed.

Here are the briefs.