 That meant the Sioux could re-litigate the claim as a Fifth Amendment taking, to collect 100 years' worth of interest.Finally, under its new authorizing statute, the Claims Court held the Sioux had suffered a taking cognizable under the Fifth Amendment, and were entitled to the value of the land as of the 1877 taking which was $17.1 million, the value of gold prospectors illegally took out of the land computed at $450,000, and 100 years' worth of interest at 5% per year which would be an additional $88 million.This holding the Government appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted its petition for certiorari.