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INDIAN TP. PASSAMAQUODDY v. GOVERNOR

495 A.2d 1189 (1985)

INDIAN TOWNSHIP PASSAMAQUODDY RESERVATION HOUSING AUTHORITY et al. v. GOVERNOR OF the STATE of Maine et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 12, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tureen & Margolin, Barry A. Margolin (orally), Thomas N. Tureen, Portland, for plaintiffs.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., William R. Stokes (orally), Susan P. Herman, William Laubenstein, III, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, VIOLETTE, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs, three Indian reservation housing authorities, sought a declaratory judgment in the Superior Court (Kennebec County) that the State of Maine continues to be bound by certain cooperation agreements for municipal services that it entered into with them in 1969 and 1971. Ruling on the parties' cross motions for summary judgment, the Superior Court held that section 12 of the federally enacted Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act...

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