Menominee Tribe of Wis. v. United States

Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 1, 2015 Decided January 25, 2016
Full case name	Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	14–510
Citations	577 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 750; 193 L. Ed. 2d 652
Case history
Prior	Summary judgment granted, 841 F. Supp. 2d 99 (D.D.C. 2012); affirmed, 764 F.3d 51 (D.C. Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 2927 (2015).
Holding
Plaintiff was not entitled to equitable tolling because they did not demonstrate "extraordinary circumstances"
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Alito, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Contract Disputes Act of 1978, 41 U.S.C. § 7101 et seq.,

Menominee Tribe of Wis. v. United States, 577 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified when litigants are entitled to equitable tolling of a statute of limitations.^[1] In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that the plaintiff in this case was not entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations because they did not demonstrate that "extraordinary circumstances" prevented the timely filing of the lawsuit.^[2]