CAYUGA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK v. CUOMO

Nos. 80-CV-930, 80-CV-960.

667 F.Supp. 938 (1987)

CAYUGA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK, et al., Plaintiffs, and The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Mario M. CUOMO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

August 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marks Murase & White (Arthur J. Gajarsa, Kenneth A. Marra, of counsel), Washington, D.C., Meggesto & Meggesto (Judy Lewis Meggesto, of counsel), Syracuse, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Wiles Fahey & Lynch (Joseph E. Fahey, of counsel), Syracuse, N.Y., Ziontz Pirtle Morisset Ernstoff & Chestnut (Glenn M. Feldman, of counsel), Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-intervenor Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, Dept. of Law (David Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), Albany, N.Y.

Huber Lawrence & Abell (Howard M. Schmertz, of counsel), New York City, for New York State Elec. & Gas Corp.

Hiscock & Barclay (Richard Hughes, Clifford Wilson, of counsel), Syracuse, N.Y., for Consol. Rail Corp.

Hale and Dorr (James D. St. Clair, William F. Lee, of counsel), Boston, Mass., for Seneca County, et al.

Goodwin Procter & Hoar (Allan van Gestel, of counsel), Boston, Mass., for Cayuga County, et al.

Thomas H. Pacheco, Indian Resources Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for United States amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

McCURN, District Judge.

In this action, one of a number with which the court has dealt involving Indian land claims, the court is being asked by the plaintiff, the Cayuga Nation of New York, and the plaintiff-intervenor, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma (the plaintiffs),1 to determine that two conveyances of land, one occurring in 1795, and the other...

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