MUSKRAT V. UNITED STATES
219 U.S. 346 (1911)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over an act of Congress to confer jurisdiction
upon a Court of Claims to determine the validity of certain acts of Congress.
FACTS: Congress passed an act that conferred jurisdiction upon certain individuals and
the representatives of all Cherokee citizens to sue in the Court of Claims to determine the
validity of acts of Congress passed since the act of July 1, 1902 in so far as the same
attempt to increase or extend the restrictions upon alienation, encumbrance or the right to
lease the allotments of lands of Cherokee citizens, or to increase the number of persons
entitled to share in the final distribution of lands and funds of the Cherokees beyond those
enrolled for allotment as of September 1, 1902 and provided for in the said act of July 1,
1902. The Supreme Court heard the case challenging the act.
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