LINCOLN V. VIGIL
508 U.S. 182 (1993)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over a decision to relocate resources for
handicapped Indian children.
FACTS: The Indian Health Agency within the Public Health Service of the Department of
Health and Human Services provided health care for 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska
Native people. The Agency established a program known as the Indian Children's Program,
which was to provide therapeutic and residential treatment centers of disturbed Indian
children. Funds were never expressly appropriated by Congress but the Service allocated
$292,000 for a pilot project. The Service then requested $3.5 million in appropriations to
construct a diagnostic and treatment center for handicapped Indian Children. Funds were not
given but legislative reports did indicate that Service funding was increased $300,000 for a
nationwide expansion and development of the program in conjunction with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. The national program was never implemented but the program did continue as a
service offered from the Albuquerque office. Congress was informed of these activities and
by 1985, the Service wanted to transfer the personnel across the nation in order to act as
consultants to other nationwide Service programs. The handicapped Indian children (P) who
had been receiving the direct clinical services sued under the issue that the discontinuance
of their direct service violated the federal trust responsibility to Indians, the Snyder
Act, the Improvement Act, the APA, various agency regulations and Due Process under the
Fifth Amendment. The Court of Appeals held that the substance of the agency determination
was reviewable under the APA. This is the holding for that part of the decision to close the
clinic is committed to agency discretion.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
HOLDING AND DECISION:
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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