Opening highways
United States Code
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- 2025United States v. Town of Lac Du Flambeau W.D. Wis.
- 2025Anderson, Gordon v. Newland, Bryan W.D. Wis.
- 2023Cathy Covington v. Department of the Interior MSPB
- 2023Jones v. United States Fed. Cl.
- 2020Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes v. Lake County Board of Commissioners D. Mont.
- 2020State of South Dakota v. Frazier D.S.D.
- 2015Public Service Co. v. Approximately 15.49 Acres of Land D.N.M.
- 2014Chemehuevi Indian Tribe v. Jewell 9th Cir.
- 1998Calhoon v. Sell D.S.D.
- 1997Wilson v. Marchington 9th Cir.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant permission, upon compliance with such requirements as he may deem necessary, to the proper State or local authorities for the opening and establishment of public highways, in accordance with the laws of the State or Territory in which the lands are situated, through any Indian reservation or through any lands which have been allotted in severalty to any individual Indian under any laws or treaties but which have not been conveyed to the allottee with full power of alienation. (Source: (Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 4, 31 Stat. 1084.))