Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 2004; Decided March 1, 2005
Full case name	Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, et al. v. Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
Citations	543 U.S. 631 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1172; 161 L. Ed. 2d 66
Case history
Prior	Cherokee Nation v. United States, 190 F. Supp. 2d 1248 (E.D. Okla. 2001); affirmed, Cherokee Nation v. Thompson, 311 F.3d 1054 (10th Cir. 2002); cert. granted, 541 U.S. 934 (2004);; Thompson v. Cherokee Nation, 344 F.3d 1075 (Fed. Cir. 2003); cert. granted, 541 U.S. 934 (2004).;
Holding
	Reversed and remanded in part, affirmed and remanded in part, held that a contract with the Federal Government to reimburse the tribe for health care costs was binding, despite the failure of Congress to appropriate funds for those costs.
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	Breyer, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Scalia
	Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 25 U.S.C. 450 et. seq.

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt, 543 U.S. 631 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a contract with the Federal Government to reimburse the tribe for health care costs was binding, despite the failure of Congress to appropriate funds for those costs.

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 2004 Decided March 1, 2005
Full case name	Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, et al. v. Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
Citations	543 U.S. 631 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1172; 161 L. Ed. 2d 66
Case history
Prior	Cherokee Nation v. United States, 190 F. Supp. 2d 1248 (E.D. Okla. 2001); affirmed, Cherokee Nation v. Thompson, 311 F.3d 1054 (10th Cir. 2002); cert. granted, 541 U.S. 934 (2004); Thompson v. Cherokee Nation, 344 F.3d 1075 (Fed. Cir. 2003); cert. granted, 541 U.S. 934 (2004).
Holding
Reversed and remanded in part, affirmed and remanded in part, held that a contract with the Federal Government to reimburse the tribe for health care costs was binding, despite the failure of Congress to appropriate funds for those costs.
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	Breyer, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Scalia
Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 25 U.S.C. 450 et. seq.