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S. OF FLA., D. OF BUS. REG. v. U.S. D. OF INTERIOR

No. 84-3246.

768 F.2d 1248 (1985)

STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION, State of Florida, Department of Revenue, State of Florida; and the City of Tampa, Florida, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR and Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 16, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold F.X. Purnell, Sandra P. Stockwell, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Business Regulation, Joseph C. Mellichamp, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Wendy B. Jacobs, Appellate Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., J. Carol Williams, Martin W. Matzen, Charles W. Ross, David T. Henniger, St. Petersburg, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This litigation involves the combined efforts of the State of Florida, the Florida Department of Business Regulation, the Florida Department of Revenue, and the City of Tampa (appellants), to challenge the Secretary of the Interior's decision to acquire a tract of land in trust for the benefit of the Seminole Indian Tribe. The court below dismissed their complaint on sovereign immunity and standing grounds. We affirm as to sovereign immunity...

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