Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 18, 2012 Decided June 18, 2012
Full case name	Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, et al.
Docket no.	11-551
Citations	567 U.S. 182 (more) 132 S. Ct. 2181; 183 L. Ed. 2d 186; 2012 U.S. LEXIS 4656; 80 U.S.L.W. 4475; 23 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 386; 2012 WL 2196799
Case history
Prior	Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Lujan, 112 F.3d 1455 (10th Cir. 1997); Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Babbitt, 50 F. Supp. 2d 1091 (D.N.M. 1999); Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Norton, 250 F. Supp. 2d 1303 (D.N.M. 2002); Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Salazar, 644 F.3d 1054 (10th Cir. 2011)
Holding
The United States government, when it enters into a contract with a Native American Indian tribe for services, must pay contracts in full so long as funds are available, regardless of whether sufficient funds are available to pay all such contracts.
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 opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Kagan
Dissent	Roberts, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito
Laws applied
25 U.S.C. §§ 450j–450l

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, 567 U.S. 182 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the United States government, when it enters into a contract with a Native American Indian tribe for services, must pay contracts in full, even if Congress has not appropriated enough money to pay all tribal contractors.^[1] The case was litigated over a period of 22 years, beginning in 1990, until it was decided in 2012.