Oneida County V. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. State (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oneida County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. State, 470 U.S. 226 (1985), is a landmark decision concerning aboriginal title in the United States. The case was "the first Indian land claim case won on the basis of the Nonintercourse Act." The Supreme Court held that Indian tribes have a common law cause of action for possessory land claims based upon aboriginal title, that the Nonintercourse Act did not preempt that cause of action, and that the cause of action was not barred by a statute of limitations, abatement, implicit federal ratification, or nonjusticiability. Four dissenting justices would have held for the counties on the defense of laches, a question which the majority did not reach, but expressed doubts about.