SAC AND FOX NATION OF MISSOURI, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians, and Bill Graves, Governor of the State of Kansas, Plaintiffs,
v.
Bruce BABBITT, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, Defendant.
Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, Plaintiff,
v.
Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Kansas.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 2, 2000.
March 2, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mark S. Gunnison, Stephen D. McGiffert, Payne & Jones, Chtd., Overland Park, KS, Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, WA, John R. Shordike, Berkeley, CA, Paul Alexander, Alexander & Karshmer, Washington, DC, Judith A. Shapiro, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, Washington, DC, M. Frances Ayer, Federal Bar Ass'n, for Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri, Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska and Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians, plaintiffs.
M.J. Willoughby, John W. Campbell, Office of Attorney General, Topeka, KS, Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, WA, Carla J. Stovall, Kansas Attorney General, Topeka, KS, John R Shordike, Berkeley, CA, Paul Alexander, Alexander & Karshmer, for Bill Graves, Governor of State of Kansas, plaintiff.
Jackie A. Rapstine, Office of United States Attorney, Topeka, KS, Edward Passarelli, U.S. Dept. of Justice, General Litigation Section, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, Steven E Carroll, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Indian Resources Section, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of Interior, defendant.
David McCullough, Oklahoma City, OK, Richard W. Morefield, Jr., Thomas G. Munsell, Bottaro, McCormick & Morefield, L.C., Kansas City, MO, for Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, defendant.
United States District Court, D. Kansas.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ROGERS, District Judge.
These long-pending cases concern the decision of the Secretary of the Interior to take .52 acres of land (the "Shriner Tract") into trust on behalf of the Wyandotte Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, purportedly under the mandate of Public Law 98-602, and whether that land is contiguous to "reservation" land for the purposes of the Indian Gaming Regulation Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq. The alleged "reservation...
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