Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
| Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. The case was litigated over a period of 22 years, beginning in 1990, until it was decided in 2012.