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MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO

No. 96-2156.

131 F.3d 1379 (1997)

MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, and Bruce King, Governor of the State of New Mexico, Defendant-Appellee. Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of Pojoaque; Pueblo of Acoma, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On the briefs:*

Gregory M. Quinlan, John D. Wheeler, Anne-Kathryn Claassen, Fettinger, Bloom & Quinlan, P.C., Alamogordo, NM, for Appellant.

Tom Udall, Attorney General, Christopher D. Coppin, Assistant Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellees.

Richard W. Hughes, Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Cron & Schoenburg, LLP, Santa Fe, NM, for amicus Pueblo of Santa Ana.

Sarah W. Barlow, Rosenfelt, Barlow, Barber, Barudin & Borg, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for amicus Pueblo of Taos.

Kevin Gover, Gover, Stetson & Williams, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for amicus Pueblo of Tesuque.

Joseph D. Little, Santa Fe, NM, for amicus Pueblo of Pojoaque.

Peter C. Chestnut, Chestnut Law Offices, Albuquerque, NM, for amicus Pueblo of Acoma.

Before ANDERSON, HENRY, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This case began in 1992 when plaintiff and appellant, the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, a federally-recognized Indian tribe in New Mexico, filed an action seeking to compel the State of New Mexico to negotiate in good faith to achieve a compact permitting Class III (casino-type) gaming on the Mescalero Reservation. Eventually, in 1995, the Tribe and the State entered into a compact ("Compact") permitting such gaming...

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