CATAWBA INDIAN TRIBE OF S.C. v. STATE OF S.C.

No. 82-1671.

740 F.2d 305 (1984)

CATAWBA INDIAN TRIBE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, also known as the Catawba Nation of South Carolina, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Richard W. Riley, as Governor of the State of South Carolina; County of Lancaster, and its County Council consisting of Francis L. Bell as Chairman, Fred E. Plyler, Eldridge Emory, Robert L. Mobley, Barry L. Mobley, L. Eugene Hudson, Lindsay Pettus; City of Rock Hill, J. Emmett Jerome, as Mayor, and its City Council consisting of Melford A. Wilson, Elizabeth D. Rhea, Maxine Gill, Winston Searles, A. Douglas Echols, Frank W. Berry, Sr.; Bowater North American Corporation; Catawba Timber Co.; Celanese Corporation of America; Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina; Cresent Land & Timber Corp.; Duke Power Company; Flint Realty and Construction Company; Herald Publishing Company; Home Federal Savings and Loan Association; Rock Hill Printing & Finishing Company; Roddey Estates, Inc.; Southern Railway Company; Springs Mills Inc.; J.P. Stevens & Company; Tega Cay Associates; Wachovia Bank and Trust Company; Ashe Brick Company; Church Heritage Village & Missionary Fellowship; Nisbet Farms, Inc.; C.H. Albright; Ned Albright; J.W. Anderson, Jr.; John Marshall Wilkins, II; Jesse G. Anderson; John Wesley Anderson; David Goode Anderson; W.B. Ardrey, Jr.; Eliza Beth Ardrey Grimball; John W. Ardrey, Ardrey Farms; F.S. Barnes, Jr.; W. Watson Barron; Wilson Barron; Archie B. Carroll, Jr.; Hugh William Close; James Bradley; Francis Lay Springs; Lillian Crandel Close; Francis Allison Close; Leroy Springs Close; Patricia Close; William Elliot Close; Hugh William Close, Jr.; Robert A. Fewell; W.J. Harris; Annie F. Harris; T.W. Hutchinson; Hiram Hutchinson, Jr.; J.R. McAlhaney; F.M. Mack, Jr.; Arnold F. Marshall; J.E. Marshall, Jr.; C.E. Reid, Jr.; Will R. Simpson; John S. Simpson; Robert F. Simpson; Thomas Brown Snodgrass, Jr.; John M. Spratt; Marshal E. Walker; Hugh M. White, Jr.; John M. Belk; Jane Nisbet Goode; R.N. Bencher; W.O. Nisbet, III; Pauline B. Gunter; J. Max Minson; W.A. McCorkle; Mary McCorkle; William O. Nisbet; Eugenia Nisbet White; Mary Nisbet Purvis; E.N. Martin; Robert M. Yoder, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don B. Miller, Boulder, Colo., and Jean H. Toal, Columbia, S.C. (Native American Rights Fund; Belser, Baker, Barwick, Ravenel, Toal & Bender, Columbia, S.C., Robert M. Jones, Rock Hill, S.C., Mike Jolly and Richard Steele, Union, S.C., on brief), for appellant.

John C. Christie, Jr., Chicago, Ill., J.D. Todd, Jr., Greenville, S.C., James D. St. Clair, Boston, Mass. (J. William Hayton, Stephen J. Landes, Lucinda O. McConathy, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, Ill., Michael J. Giese, Gwendolyn Embler, Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, S.C., Dan M. Byrd, Jr., Mitchell K. Byrd, Byrd & Byrd, Rock Hill, S.C., James L. Quarles, III, William F. Lee, David H. Erichsen; Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., Kenneth P. Woodington, Asst. Atty. Gen. for the State of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, WIDENER, HALL, PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN, and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge. (en banc)


PER CURIAM:

The judgment of the district court is reversed, and this case is remanded for further proceedings for reasons stated in the opinion of the panel. Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina v. South Carolina, 718 F.2d 1291 (4th Cir.1983). Judge Widener, Judge Hall, and Judge Phillips, dissenting, would affirm the judgment of dismissal for the reasons stated in Judge Hall's dissent...

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