LAC COURTE OREILLES CHIPPEWA IND. v. STATE OF WIS.

No. 87-2088.

829 F.2d 601 (1987)

LAC COURTE OREILLES BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF WISCONSIN, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Hanaway, Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., James H. McDermott, Mary V. Bowman, for plaintiffs.

Candy L. Jackson, Bad River Law Office, Odnaha, Wis., Kathryn L. Tierney, Lac Du Flambeau Tribal Atty., Lac DuFlambeau, Wis., James E. Zorn, Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Atty., Hayward, Wis., James L. Beck, Wisconsin Judicare, Inc., Wausau, Wis., Howard J. Bichler, St. Croix Tribal Atty., Hertel, Wis., for defendants.

Before WOOD, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We asked the parties to address our jurisdiction over this appeal, by which the State of Wisconsin asks us to review two orders by the district court, one refusing to dismiss the plaintiffs' claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the other awarding interim attorney's fees to the plaintiffs in an amount yet to be fixed. 663 F.Supp. 682 (W.D.Wis.1987). Earlier stages in this complex and protracted litigation over Indian...

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