Supreme Court of the United States
Carcieri v. Salazar
This writing
- Type
- Concurrence
- Filed
- Feb. 24, 2009
- Case
- Carcieri v. Salazar
- Case status
- Decided
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Justice Breyer, concurring. I join the Court’s opinion with three qualifications. First, I cannot say that the statute’s language by itself is determinative. Linguistically speaking, the word “now” in the phrase “now under Federal jurisdiction,” 25 U. S. C. §479, may refer to a tribe’s jurisdictional status as of 1934. But one could also read it to refer to the time the Secretary of the Interior exe…
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Other writings in this case
| Type | Author | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Opinion of the Court | Not attributed | Feb. 24, 2009 |
| Opinion | Not attributed | Feb. 24, 2009 |
| Concurrence in part | Not attributed | Feb. 24, 2009 |
| Dissent | Not attributed | Feb. 24, 2009 |