Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:arguedDate 1902-12-03
1902-12-02
gptkbp:category United States Native American case law
United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court
1903 in United States case law
gptkbp:citation 187 U.S. 553
gptkbp:date 1903-01-05
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court
gptkbp:docketNumber No. 275
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Lone_Wolf_v._Ethan_A._Hitchcock,_Secretary_of_the_Interior,_et_al.
gptkbp:heldBy Congress may unilaterally abrogate Indian treaties
Congress has plenary power over Native American treaties
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
gptkbp:legalImpact Weakened Native American treaty protections
Established Congressional plenary power over Indian affairs
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
gptkb:Rufus_W._Peckham
gptkb:Edward_Douglass_White
gptkb:John_Marshall_Harlan
gptkb:David_Josiah_Brewer
gptkb:Joseph_McKenna
gptkb:Melville_Fuller
gptkb:Henry_Billings_Brown
gptkb:William_R._Day
gptkbp:petitioner gptkb:Lone_Wolf
gptkbp:predecessor Subsequent federal Indian law cases
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkb:Kiowa_tribe
gptkb:Medicine_Lodge_Treaty
gptkb:Comanche_tribe
gptkbp:response gptkb:Ethan_A._Hitchcock
gptkbp:subject Native American treaty rights
Congressional plenary power
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Justice_John_M._Harlan
gptkb:United_States_in_court_cases_involving_Indian_law
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7