Litigation
Apr. 9, 2009
Lawsuits Rise Over Indian Sovereignty
For nearly 30 years, Brandon Johnson's family has operated the Water Wheel Resort, a modest retreat by the Colorado River on leased land from local Indian tribes. The relationship was for the most part amicable until the tribes upped the rent from $2,600 to $101,500. The case is in federal court, but the Indian tribes are invoking sovereignty. It is one among a growing number of such cases as Indian tribes increasingly flex economic and legal powers.
Daily Journal Staff Writer BLYTHE - For nearly 30 years, Brandon Johnson's family has operated the Water Wheel Resort, a modest retreat in this bucolic stretch of the Colorado River banked by craggy, cactus covered hills. They leased the land from local Indian tribes at $2,600 a year, and the relationship was for the most part amicable. That is, until the tribes upped the annual rent to $101,500. "It was absolutely ...
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