South Dakota v. Bourland

South Dakota v. Bourland
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 2, 1993 Decided June 14, 1993
Full case name	South Dakota v. Gregg Bourland, etc., et al.
Citations	508 U.S. 679 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2309; 124 L. Ed. 2d 606; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4034
Case history
Prior	South Dakota v. Bourland, 949 F.2d 984 (8th Cir. 1991).
Holding
Reversed, held that Congress specifically abrogated treaty rights with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe as to hunting and fishing rights on reservation lands that were acquired for a reservoir.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, White, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy
Dissent	Blackmun, joined by Souter
Laws applied
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 (15 Stat 635); Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat 887); Cheyenne River Act of September 3, 1954 (68 Stat 1191)

South Dakota v. Bourland, 508 U.S. 679 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress specifically abrogated treaty rights with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe as to hunting and fishing rights on reservation lands that were acquired for a reservoir.^[1]