Opinion ID: 399351
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Balancing of Equities.

Text: 26 The county's effort to balance equities in its favor is unavailing. Not only are the facts of Board of County Comm'rs, supra, 308 U.S. 343, 60 S.Ct. 285, 84 L.Ed. 313, distinguishable from the case at bar; so too is there present explicit legislative policy cutting across state interests. Id. at 352, 60 S.Ct. at 289. Cases such as Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe, 442 U.S. 653, 99 S.Ct. 2529, 61 L.Ed.2d 153 (1979) recognize that application of state law over federal is appropriate only where there is little likelihood of injury to federal trust responsibilities. Id. at 673, 99 S.Ct. at 2541. Here, were Idaho Code § 6-904 4 to supersede 28 U.S.C. § 2415, federal law would be effectively overriden. 27 The judgment of the district court is REVERSED and the case REMANDED for further action on the issue of damages.