ONEIDA INDIAN NATION v. CITY OF SHERRILL, NY

Docket Nos. 01-7795, 01-7797.

337 F.3d 139 (2003)

ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, Ray Halbritter, Keller George, Chuck Fougnier, Marilyn John, Clint Hill, Dale Rood, Dick Lynch, Ken Phillips, Beulah Green, Ruth Burr, Brian Patterson, and Iva Rodgers, Consolidated-Defendants-Appellees, v. CITY OF SHERRILL, NEW YORK, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Madison County, Amicus Curiae-Appellant, Oneida County, Amicus Curiae, State of New York, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 21, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira S. Sacks, Fried, Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen New York, NY, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant.

Michael R. Smith, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Washington, DC (William W. Taylor, III, David A. Reiser, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee and Consolidated-Defendants-Appellees.

G. Robert Witmer, JR., Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, N.Y. (David M. Shraver, of counsel), for Amici Curiae-Appellants Madison County and Oneida County.

Andrew D. Bing, Assistant Solicitor General, Albany, N.Y. (Caitlin J. Halligan, Daniel Smirlock, Peter H. Schiff, of counsel, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York), for Amicus Curiae State of New York.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, MESKILL, and B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judges.


Judge VAN GRAAFEILAND dissents in part in a separate opinion.

B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This case, consisting of four actions, addresses whether properties reacquired by the Oneida Indian Nation of New York ("OIN" or "the Oneidas") are subject to taxation by the City of Sherrill, New York and Madison County, New York. The OIN is a federally recognized Indian tribe, governed by a Nation Representative and a...

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