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SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY v. BABBITT

No. 95-C-659-C.

961 F.Supp. 1276 (1997)

SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY (MOLE LAKE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA); Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs, v. Bruce C. BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; Michael J. Anderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; John J. Duffy, Counselor to the Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; and George Skibine, Director, Indian Gaming Management Staff, United States Department of the Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

March 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin C. Potter, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall. S.C., Madison, WI, for Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake.

Robert H. Friebert, Friebert Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior.

Mark A. Cameli, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madison, WI, for Bruce C. Babbitt, U.S. Dept of Interior, Michael J. Anderson, John J. Duffy and George Skibine.

OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are three Chippewa Indian tribes that submitted applications to the United States Department of the Interior in October 1993 pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 2719 (the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act), requesting that the United States acquire in trust a greyhound racing facility in Hudson, Wisconsin for conversion into an off-reservation casino. After two years of deliberations at the local and national levels...

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