The sons, along with the Sac and Fox Nation, asked the Supreme Court to decide that the town of Jim Thorpe, which named itself for the athlete in a deal with his third wife, falls under a 1990 law intended to rectify the historic plundering of American Indian burial grounds. After Oklahoma's governor balked at the cost of a planned monument to the athlete, third wife Patricia had Thorpe's body seized by police during his Indian funeral service and sent it to northeastern Pennsylvania. The law requires museums — defined as any institution or state or local government agency that receives federal funds — and federal agencies possessing American Indian remains to return them upon request of the deceased's family or tribe. Lawyers for the sons warned Tuesday that if the ruling by the 3rd U.S.