Idaho v. United States

Idaho v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 23, 2001 Decided June 18, 2001
Full case name	Idaho v. United States
Docket no.	00-189
Citations	533 U.S. 262 (more) 121 S. Ct. 2135; 150 L. Ed. 2d 326; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 4665
Case history
Prior	United States v. Idaho (In re Coeur d'Alene Lake), 95 F. Supp. 2d 1094, 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22906 (D. Idaho 1998); United States v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe, 210 F.3d 1067, 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 8583 (9th Cir. 2000)
Holding
The United States, not the state of Idaho, held title to lands submerged under Lake Coeur d'Alene, and that the land was held in trust for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe.
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	Souter, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas

Idaho v. United States, 533 U.S. 262 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the United States, not the state of Idaho, held title to lands submerged under Lake Coeur d'Alene and the St. Joe River, and that the land was held in trust for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe as part of its reservation, and in recognition (established in the 19th century) of the importance of traditional tribal uses of these areas for basic food and other needs.^[1]