In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1971, no. 71-183 : the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians, by and through its tribal council, and Dora Joyce Prieto, Priscilla Gonzales, Gloria Gillettee, Patrick Patencio and Lawrence Pierce, allottees, individually and in class action, on behalf of all allottees of allotted land on the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians reservation, petitioners, v. The County of Riverside, a political subdivision of the state of California, respondents : brief of Native American Rights Fund, California Indian Legal Services, Dinebeiina Nahiilna be Agaditahe, as amici curiae in support of the petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / David H. Getches [counsel for amici curiae].

Case summary: Possessory interest tax could be imposed on lesses of Indian land absent legislation demonstrating a congressional purpose to forbid imposition of tax.