Reply-To: From: Robert Dorman Subject: Judge Corroll's ruling Date: Friday, February 06, 1998 2:06 PM >From BIGMTLIST Reproduced below, for those with only email internet access, is AP story on Judge Carroll's ruling. All others should follow the link. The story is submitted here by the Navajo Nation: http://www.sltrib.com/020698/u tah/21304.htm                              Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact   THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a settlement of a century-old land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes.       U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll ruled Jan. 26 that he did not have jurisdiction to rule   whether the accommodation agreement was illegal because the case involved two sovereign   tribes and was ratified by Congress.       Eight Navajos living on a disputed area of the Hopi reservation filed a suit last October   challenging the settlement, which was signed into federal law by President Clinton in 1996   and allowed Navajos in the disputed area to sign 75-year leases with the Hopi tribe.       The suit claimed the settlement was unfair because it didn't provide for infrastructure   improvements and limited Navajos living on the Hopi land ``to only subsistence activities.''       If the case isn't appealed, Hopi officials said the tribe can ratify the leases with the 316   Navajo families who last year agreed to live under Hopi jurisdiction rather than be relocated.       For the 28 families who refuse to sign leases and refuse to move, Hopi officials said the   deadline for to be off Hopi-partitioned land is Feb. 1, 2000.                                 [Image] [Image] [Image]        Friday, February 6, 1998       [Image] [Image]                 Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact THE ASSOCIATED PRESS      FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a settlement of a century-old land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes.      U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll ruled Jan. 26 that he did not have jurisdiction to rule whether the accommodation agreement was illegal because the case involved two sovereign tribes and was ratified by Congress.      Eight Navajos living on a disputed area of the Hopi reservation filed a suit last October challenging the settlement, which was signed into federal law by President Clinton in 1996 and allowed Navajos in the disputed area to sign 75-year leases with the Hopi tribe.      The suit claimed the settlement was unfair because it didn't provide for infrastructure improvements and limited Navajos living on the Hopi land ``to only subsistence activities.''      If the case isn't appealed, Hopi officials said the tribe can ratify the leases with the 316 Navajo families who last year agreed to live under Hopi jurisdiction rather than be relocated.      For the 28 families who refuse to sign leases and refuse to move, Hopi officials said the deadline for to be off Hopi-partitioned land is Feb. 1, 2000.                 [Image] [Friday Navigation Bar] [Image]                                 [Image] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- © Copyright 1998, The Salt Lake Tribune All material found on Utah OnLine is copyrighted The Salt Lake Tribune and associated news services. No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The Salt Lake Tribune.            --------------------------------------------------      Contact The Salt Lake Tribune or Utah OnLine by clicking here. ******************************************** You are on the BIGMTLIST, a moderated mailing list of Big Mountain relocation resistance information (not discussion or debate). To unsubscribe, email redorman@theofficenet.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject header. For non-list members receiving this post as a forwarded message, you may subscribe by emailing redorman@theofficenet.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject header. For Big Mountain and other activist internet resources, visit "The Activist Page" at http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/welcome.html Also, for great internet tools please visit: http://www.msw.com.au/cgi-bin/msw/entry?id=1271 ******************************************** ----------