City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 11, 2005 Decided March 29, 2005
Full case name	City of Sherrill, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, et al.
Docket no.	03-855
Citations	544 U.S. 197 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1478; 161 L. Ed. 2d 386; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 2927 [1]
Case history
Prior	Oneida Indian Nation v. City of Sherrill, 337 F.3d 139 (2d Cir. N.Y. 2003)
Subsequent	Rehearing denied, 544 U.S. 1057 (2005), on remand sub nom. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Madison Cnty., 401 F. Supp. 2d 219 (N.D.N.Y. 2005), motion to amend denied, 235 F.R.D. 559 (N.D.N.Y. 2006), aff'd, 605 F.3d 149 (2nd Cir. 2010), cert. granted, 131 S. Ct. 459 (2010), vacated and remanded sub nom. Madison Cnty. v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y., 131 S. Ct. 704 (2011) (per curiam)
Holding
Reversed and remanded. Held that repurchase of traditional tribal lands did not restore tribal sovereignty to that land.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer
Concurrence	Souter (in judgment)
Dissent	Stevens
Laws applied
25 U.S.C. § 465

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, 544 U.S. 197 (2005), was a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court held that repurchase of traditional tribal lands 200 years later did not restore tribal sovereignty to that land. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion.^[1]