U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1996

Crow Tribe of Indians v. Montana

Crow Tribe of Indians v. Montana
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided October 29, 1996 · Browning, Canby, Wright
98 F.3d 1194; 1996 WL 625085 (Federal Reporter, Third Series)

Crow Tribe of Indians v. Montana

Opinion of the Court

ORDER

The motion to recall the mandate is granted.

The petition for rehearing received on September 18,1996, is accepted for filing.

The opinion, 92 F.3d 826, is amended by adding to the end of footnote 2:

Montana also argues in its petition for rehearing that this case presents a weaker case for quasi-contractual relief than California, where restitution was denied, *1195because the Tribe did not transfer any resources to the State. But California involved an entirely different factual situation: a claim of restitution by the Government where the Government had voluntarily agreed to reimburse a contractor subject to a state tax. The Government, unlike the Tribe, was “in no better position than as a subrogee of its contractor,” id. at 752, 113 S.Ct. at 1788, and the Supreme Court held that “the Government cannot use the existence of an obligation to indemnify [a contractor] to create a federal cause of action for money had and received to recover state taxes paid by [the contractor].” Id. at 754, 113 S.Ct. at 1789.

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