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Second Circuit Holds Town of Ledyard May Tax Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Machines

Matthew L.M. Fletcher4 Comments

Here are the materials in Mashantucket Pequot Tribe v. Town of Ledyard:

CA2 Opinion

Town of Ledyard Opening Brief

Intervenor Connecticut Brief

MPN Answer Brief

Connecticut Reply

Town of Ledyard Reply

Lower court materials here.

Ninth Circuit Issues Another Superceding Opinion in Gila River Indian Community v. United States

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here:

Gila River v US Superceding Opinion July 9 2013

Prior post here.

Eighth Circuit Briefs in Tribal Court Jurisdiction Appeal from Rosebud Sioux

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here are the briefs in Columbe v. Rosebud Sioux Tribe:

Columbe Opening Brief

RST Answer Brief

Columbe Reply Brief

Lower court materials here.

Federal Court Dismisses OSHA Claim against Seminole Casino

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here are the materials in Maestro v. Seminole Tribe of Florida (M.D. Fla.):

DCT Order Granting Motion to Dismiss

Seminole Motion to Dismiss

Maestro Response

Injunction Granted in Wells Fargo v. Chukchansi EDC (N.Y. Supreme Court) — UPDATED

Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

Materials here:

Wells Fargo Motion

BofA Opposition

Wells Fargo Reply

Transcript

Chukchansi order part 1

Chukchansi order part 2

Federal Reply Brief in City of Duluth v. NIC

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here:

Federal Reply

Earlier materials (complaint, MTD, and opposition) linked here.

CA Senate Approves Casino Deal for North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians

Victoria Sweet

The 22-11 vote, which split members of both parties, will allow the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians to build a new casino with 2,000 slot machines on a 300-acre parcel just north of Madera in the Central Valley that was once slated to be a NASCAR track.

The deal was made possible through a rare federal approval process that allowed the tribe to build on land it has just recently acquired. Federal law stipulates that typically casinos can be build only on lands recognized as belonging to tribes before 1988, the year the federal government officially sanctioned tribal gambling.

The exception made for North Fork angered other neighboring and large casino-owning tribes around the state who said the North Fork were “reservation shopping.” The new location’s proximity to a major state highway and the city of Madera also touched off concerns about the encroachment of Indian casinos into urban areas.

Article here.

Previous coverage here.

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Amicus Brief in Michigan v. Sault Tribe

Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

Here:

Saginaw Chippewa Amicus Brief

Update in Arizona v. Tohono O’odham Nation — Remaining Contract Claims Defeated

Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

Here are the materials in State of Arizona v. Tohono O’odham Nation (D. Ariz.):

DCT Order June 25

Plaintiffs Supplemental Brief

TON Supplemental Brief

An excerpt:

For reasons explained below, the Court concludes that §§ 201(1) and 201(2) cannot be used by Plaintiffs to establish an enforceable oral agreement that the Nation would not open a casino in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Court has already held that the  Compact between the State and the Nation includes no such agreement, and that even Plaintiffs’ extrinsic evidence does not make the Compact’s terms reasonably susceptible to such a reading. Doc. 216. The Court now concludes that the Compact is a fully integrated written agreement under Chapter 9 of the Restatement, and that such an agreement between the parties forecloses any separate oral agreement. As a result, the Court will grant summary judgment in favor of the Nation on Plaintiffs’ § 201(2) claim and deny Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration on the § 201(1) claim.

This concludes the trial court proceedings, mostly concluded in the court’s order granting summary judgment on most claims we posted about here.

IPR Coverage of Supreme Court Grant in Michigan v. Bay Mills

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.