April 15, 2024
The Ninth Circuit has vacated a ruling that a Navajo Nation member failed to prove he was wrongfully denied relocation benefits after the U.S. gave his ancestral lands to the Hopi Tribe, with a split panel remanding the case to federal district court with instructions to consider evidence of his income.
December 13, 2022
A Navajo Nation member has told the Ninth Circuit he was wrongly denied relocation benefits after the federal government awarded his ancestral land to the Hopi Tribe, saying a lower court wrongly found that he lacked evidence showing income he earned from 1978 to 1980.