"This is a huge commitment," said Utah representative Kay Christofferson, a Republican who sponsored legislation approved last Thursday creating a so-called "public lands litigation account" through which the state is beginning to finance a possible lawsuit.
His practice focuses primarily on business litigation, real estate litigation, construction litigation, land use, and business law.
Stephen Jones, a land use and real estate litigation attorney, has agreed to help the group prepare a lawsuit.
He has been an expert witness in Indian land claims litigation.
In the land of litigation, an expensive lawsuit could easily arise from a simple motor accident.
But America is the land of litigation, and by the nineties the Adventure Playground, which lies on the western edge of Central Park, in the high Sixties, had been deemed altogether too adventurous; tunnels were blocked off after parents complained of not being able to see their children at all times.
California has experienced less possessory land claim litigation than other states.
According to a 1910 Q&A in the New York Times, the lawyers fees were "long since supposed to have eclipsed the value of the land in litigation".
This inalienability principle whether embodied by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783, the Nonintercourse Acts of 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, or 1833, or the federal common law remains the crux of the modern Indian land claim litigation.
