Petitioner, David Patchak, debates the constitutional validity of the Gun Lake Act as a violation of the separation of powers doctrine and as a violation of the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause in the case Patchak v. Zinke. On April 18, 2005 the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe, was granted the Bradley Property, as a trust, under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The Petitioner, David Patchak, lives in close proximity to this land and found…
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