BREAKING: The Ute Tribe is suing the Utah School and Institutional Trust Land Administration, alleging it conspired with other state agencies to concoct a fraudulent pretext to reject the tribe’s $47 million bid for Tabby Mountain.
Suit alleges illegal discrimination motivated SITLA to reject the tribe’s $47 million bid for land that was once part of its reservation.
But SITLA conspired with other state agencies to concoct a fraudulent pretext to reject the tribe’s high $47 million bid and illegally cheat the tribe from regaining control of the landscape at the western edge of the Uinta Basin, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court.
The 28-page suit reads like a searing indictment of the state’s handling of the Tabby sale, alleging illegal discrimination based on religion, race, national origin and ethnicity in violation of the Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law. SITLA’s move not only discriminated against the tribe, it violated the agency’s mission to generate revenue off its 3.4-million acre portfolio of trust lands for schools, the suit says.
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