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RANSOM v. BABBITT

No. CIV.A. 98-1422(CKK).

69 F.Supp.2d 141 (1999)

Chief Alma RANSOM, Chief Hilda Smoke, and Chief Paul Thompson Plaintiffs, v. Bruce BABBITT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Stuart Waterman, Peter Bushfield Work, Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff.

Lisa Barsoomian, Mark Nagle, United States Attorney's Office, Washington, D.C., John H. Harrington, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KOLLAR-KOTELLY, District Judge.

In 1995, for the first time in almost 200 years, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe exchanged their Three Chief System of government for a constitutional one composed of three branches. The process by which this exchange took place, and the Tribe's subsequent attempts to revoke that constitutional system and to reinstate the former governing structure, provide the material for this lawsuit.

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