Court
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And, of course, the prisoners in Alcatraz had been tried in a
court
of law, defended by lawyers whose communications with them were privileged, and duly convicted of their crimes.
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1980: The longest-running
court
case in US history, the Sioux Nation versus the United States, was ruled upon by the US Supreme
Court.
The
court
determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.
The
court
stated that the Black Hills were illegally taken, and that the initial offering price, plus interest, should be paid to the Sioux Nation.
As payment for the Black Hills, the
court
awarded only 106 million dollars to the Sioux Nation.
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