25 U.S.C. § 3013
Section 3013 · Enforcement
This is § 15 of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Bonnichsen v. United States (2004)
Most recently applied in Barron v. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (January 2019)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction over any action brought by any person alleging a violation of this chapter and shall have the authority to issue such orders as may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter.