PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA v. KELLY

No. Civ. 96-0002 MV/WWD.

932 F.Supp. 1284 (1996)

PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA, Pueblo of San Juan, Pueblo of Tesuque, Pueblo of Acoma, Pueblo of Sandia, Pueblo of Isleta, Pueblo of Pojoaque, San Felipe Gaming Enterprise Board, and Pueblo of Taos, Plaintiffs, v. John J. KELLY, in his official capacity as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico; Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States; Bruce Babbitt, United States Secretary of the Interior; and the United States of America, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Counterclaimant, v. PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA, Pueblo of San Juan, Pueblo of Tesuque, Pueblo of Acoma, Pueblo of Sandia, Pueblo of Isleta, Pueblo of Pojoaque, San Felipe Gaming Enterprise Board, and Pueblo of Taos, and State of New Mexico, Counterdefendants.

United States District Court, D. New Mexico.

July 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leander Bergen, B. Reid Haltom, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Frye, Albuquerque, NM, Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, Richard W. Hughes, Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Cron & Schoenburg, Santa Fe, NM, for Pueblo of Santa Ana, San Juan Pueblo.

Kevin Gover, Gwenellen P. Janov, Gover, Stetson & Williams, Albuquerque, NM, Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, for Pueblo of Tesuque.

Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, Peter C. Chestnut, Chestnut Law Offices, Albuquerque, NM, for Pueblo of Acoma.

L. Lamar Parrish, Ussery & Parrish, Albuquerque, NM, Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, for Pueblo of Sandia, Pueblo of Isleta.

Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, Joseph D. Little, Santa Fe, NM, for Pueblo of Pojoaque.

Daniel M. Rosenfelt, Sarah W. Barlow, Richard A. Allen, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, Albuquerque, NM, for San Felipe Gaming Enterprise Board, Taos Pueblo.

Victor R. Marshall, Marshall & Associates, Albuquerque, NM, for Guy Clark, Max W. Coll, II, George Buffett.

Raymond Hamilton, Phyllis A. Dow, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Lois J. Schiffer, Edward J. Passarelli, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for John J. Kelly, Janet Reno, Bruce Babbitt, United States of America.

Harold D. Stratton, Jr., Stephen D. Ingram, Stratton & Cavin, Albuquerque, NM, for Sodak Gaming, Inc., amicus curiae.

John Burton, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, Santa Fe, NM, for Bally Gaming, Inc., amicus curiae.

John C. Bienvenu, Santa Fe, NM, Kurt V. BlueDog, Andrew M. Small, BlueDog, Olson & Small, Minneapolis, MN, Jerome L. Levine, Frank R. Lawrence, Levine & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for National Indian Gaming Association, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, amici curiae.

Christopher D. Coppin, NM Attorney General's Office, Albuquerque, NM, for State of New Mexico.


OPINION

VAZQUEZ, District Judge.

THIS MATTER came before the Court on Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment as to all of Plaintiffs' Claims and as to Defendants' First and Third Counterclaims, filed April 15, 1996 [Doc. No. 97], Plaintiffs' Supplemental Motion for Summary Judgment with Respect to Defendants' Second Counterclaim, filed April 15, 1996 [Doc. No. 101] and Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment, filed May 13, 1996 [Doc. No. 133...

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