United States v. Mitchell (1983)

United States v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 1, 1983 Decided June 27, 1983
Full case name	United States v. Helen Mitchell, et al.
Citations	463 U.S. 206 (more) 103 S. Ct. 2961; 77 L. Ed. 2d 580; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 90
Case history
Prior	Mitchell v. United States, 591 F.2d 1300 (Ct. Cl. 1979); United States v. Mitchell, 445 U.S. 535 (1980); Mitchell v. United States, 664 F.2d 265 (Ct. Cl. 1981)
Holding
The United States is accountable in money damages for alleged breaches of trust in connection with its management of forest resources on allotted lands of the Quinault Reservation.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Marshall, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Blackmun, Stevens
Dissent	Powell, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor
Laws applied
Tucker Act, Indian Tucker Act

United States v. Mitchell, 463 U.S. 206 (1983), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the United States is accountable in money damages for alleged breaches of trust in connection with its management of forest resources on allotted lands of the Quinault Reservation.^[1]