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WHEELER v. SWIMMER

No. 85-2164.

835 F.2d 259 (1987)

R. Perry WHEELER, Agnes Cowan, Wendall Cochran, George Wickliffe, James Duffield, Gilbert Green, Marion Hagerstrand, and Gloria Wilson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ross O. SWIMMER, Dora Watie, Gary Chapman, Dennis Springwater, Joe M. Parker, Frank Ferrell, Gene Thompson, Nathan Young, Dorothy Worsham, Maude Davis, Elizabeth Sullivan, Marie Wadley, Ray McSpadden, Defendants-Appellees, and Wilma Mankiller, Amon Baker, Sam Ed Bush, Don Crittenden, Leo Fishinghawk, Stann Hummingbird, Jr., John A. Ketcher, Bob McSpadden, Patsy Morton, Goodlow Proctor, Ron Qualls, Barbara Starr Scott, Clarence Sunday, Dave Whitekiller, and Wathene Young, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Gregory Bledsoe, Tulsa, Okl., and L.V. Watkins, Muskogee, Okl., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James G. Wilcoxen, Muskogee, Okl., for defendants-appellees except those referred to as "federal defendants".

F. Henry Habicht II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Layn R. Phillips, U.S. Atty., N.D. Oklahoma, Peter Bernhardt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Robert L. Klarquist and William B. Lazarus, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and David Etheridge, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., of counsel, for defendants-appellees.

Before MOORE, TACHA and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the district court granting a motion to dismiss in favor of the individual appellees. The appellees are the successful incumbents in a tribal election of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and three employees of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The district court determined that the case involved purely intratribal political controversies and declined to assume jurisdiction. We agree with this determination...

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