Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. United States

444 U.S. 995

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1979-12-10
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • noting that "the mandate of NHPA ... is quite broad” and refusing to adopt a "crabbed interpretation” of section 106
  • "the language of § 17 is broad enough to imply a private right of action ...’’
  • section 106 procedures apply to the different phases of a project and must be complied with again when the agency next has authority to approve or fund the project.

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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Blackmun would grant certiorari.