Hardwick

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TILLIE HARDWICK, et al., Case No. 79-cv-01710-EMC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

v. MOTION FOR SANCTIONS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Docket No. 392 Defendants.

12 13 14 Following this Court’s Order granting a motion by the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians (“the Tribe”) to require the United States to take restored lands into trust pursuant to the 1983 Stipulated Judgment (Docket No. 364), the Tribe now moves for sanctions, arguing that the Government’s refusal to take the Tribe’s land into trust for years, until this Court ordered it, is sanctionable under the Court’s inherent powers. Docket No. 392. As stated at the hearing, the Court DENIES the motion but schedules a status conference to ensure compliance with the Court’s order granting the Motion to Enforce. I. BACKGROUND The Tribe previously attempted to convey the Rancheria to the BIA under the mandatory provision of…