CONNECTICUT v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin S. Sharp, Guy R. Martin, Donald C. Baur, Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Towns of Ledyard, North Stonington, and Preston.

Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General for the State of Connecticut; Joseph Rubin, David H. Wrinn, Assistant Attorneys General, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee State of Connecticut.

M. Alice Thurston, Roger Martella, Elizabeth Ann Peterson, United States Department of Justice Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Stephen C. Robinson, United States Attorney; Peter Coppelman, Acting Assistant Attorney General; John B. Hughes, Assistant United States Attorney, New Haven, CT, (David Etheridge, Maria Wiseman, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., of counsel) for Defendants-Appellants.

Patrice H. Kunesh, Office of Legal Counsel, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Mashantucket, CT, Elizabeth Conway, Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C., Norwich, CT, (Jackson T. King, Jr. on the brief) for amicus curiae Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.

Before: KEARSE, WALKER, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.