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RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS v. SWIMMER

Civ. A. No. 89-0209-LFO.

740 F.Supp. 9 (1990)

RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ross SWIMMER, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Frances Ayer, Pirtle, Morisset, Schlosser & Ayer, Washington, D.C., and Mason Morisset, Pirtle, Morisset, Schlosser & Ayer, Seattle, Wash., for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.

George Fettinger, Fettinger & Bloom, Alamogordo, N.M., for the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

Edward J. Passarelli, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Michael D. Cox, Acting Asst. Solicitor, Dept. of Interior, Washington, D.C., of counsel, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

In this action, plaintiffs, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians ("RLB") and the Mescalero Apache Tribe ("MAT"), sue the Department of the Interior to prevent the implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2721 ("Gaming Act" or "Act"). The Act would regulate gaming that occurs on Indian tribal land by dividing games into one of three different classes, according to the game...

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