CAYUGA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK v. FOX

No. 80-CV-1011.

544 F.Supp. 542 (1982)

The CAYUGA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK, By Its Chiefs, Franklin Patterson, James Leaffe, Vernon Isaac, Kenneth John and Frank Bonamie, Individually and as Members of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York, Plaintiffs, v. Earl E. FOX; Robert E. White; William J. Kirk; Gail Kirk; Henry Wm. Koch; Barbara F. Koch; Thomas B. Masten, Jr.; John J. Conway; Henry Tamburo; County of Seneca, New York; Harry F. Amidon; Chairman of the Board of Supervisors; and County of Cayuga, New York, W. Bernard Craine, Chairman of County Legislature, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

July 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wender, Murase & White, Washington, D. C., Meggesto & Meggesto, Syracuse, N. Y., for plaintiffs; Arthur J. Gajarsa, Kenneth A. Marra, Washington, D. C., Judy Lewis Meggesto, Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N. Y., Albany, N. Y., for defendants White and Conway; Thomas J. Maroney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., for Seneca County; James D. St. Clair, William F. Lee, Donald R. Frederico, Boston, Mass., of counsel.

Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass., for Cayuga County; Allan van Gestel, Boston, Mass., of counsel.

Karpinski & Stapleton, P. C., Auburn, N. Y., for defendant Fox; T. David Stapleton, Auburn, N. Y., of counsel.

Kirk & Mount, Waterloo, N. Y., for defendant Kirk; William J. Kirk, Waterloo, N. Y., of counsel.

Henry M. Koch, Seneca Falls, N. Y., for defendants Koch.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

McCURN, District Judge.

On November 19, 1980, plaintiff Cayuga Indian Nation of New York by its Chiefs ("Cayuga Indian Nation" or "plaintiffs"), commenced a civil action in this Court against numerous named defendants, both individually and as representatives of a proposed class of landowners seeking, inter alia, a declaration of plaintiffs' ownership and right to possess certain real property allegedly reserved for them by...

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