LAC DU FLAMBEAU INDIANS v. STATE OF WIS.

No. 91-2698.

957 F.2d 515 (1992)

LAC DU FLAMBEAU BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS and the Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF WISCONSIN, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Greene, Greene, Meyer & McElroy, Boulder, Colo. (argued), Milton Rosenberg, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Warren D. Weinstein, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), James E. Doyle, Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., Jonathan T. McCoy, Office of Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., for defendants-appellants.

Cathy Christian, Office of Atty. Gen., Government Law Section, Sacramento, Cal., for amicus curiae State of Alaska, Ariz., and Cal.

Richard M. Sheridan, Richard Blumenthal, Office of Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for amicus curiae State of Conn.

Jonathan A. Glogau, Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., for amicus curiae State of Fla.

Marc Racicot, Atty. Gen., Helena, Mont., for amicus curiae State of Mich., Minn., Miss., and Mont.

Nicholas J. Spaeth, Office of Atty. Gen., Bismark, N.D., for amicus curiae State of Neb., Nev., and N.D.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., James H. Evans, Carol J. Smith, Office of Atty. Gen., Civil Div., Montgomery, Ala., for amicus curiae State of Or., S.D., Wash., Wyo., and Ala.

Before EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Rule 4(a)(4) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure is "the graveyard of an inordinate number of appeals." Alerte v. McGinnis, 898 F.2d 69, 70 (7th Cir.1990). An appeal filed before the district judge disposes of a motion to alter or amend the judgment drops off the face of the planet. Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co., 459 U.S. 56, 103 S.Ct. 400...

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