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CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SILETZ INDIANS v. U.S.

Civ. No. 92-1621-BU.

841 F.Supp. 1479 (1994)

The CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SILETZ INDIANS OF OREGON, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of the Interior; Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Department of the Interior; Dr. Eddie Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior for Indian Affairs; and Tom Sansonetti, Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, Defendants, and The State of Oregon and Governor Barbara Roberts, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

January 21, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig J. Dorsay, Meyer & Wyse, Portland, OR, for plaintiff.

Myles E. Flint, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Jack C. Wong, U.S. Atty., Edward J. Passarelli, General Litigation Section, Environmental and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants.

Theodore R. Kulongoski, Atty. Gen. of Oregon, Virginia L. Linder, Sol. Gen., Michael D. Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, OR, for defendants-intervenors.

AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES M. BURNS, Senior District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This case calls upon me to become a gaming master1 and, as part of that task, to distinguish why gambling can be a godsend for the Grand Ronde, an economic boon for the Cow Creek and Coquille, but seriously detrimental, if not fatal, for the Siletz Tribes.2

For a score of years, I have been importuned...

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