ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK v. NEW YORK

No. 574-CV-187 LEK/DRH.

500 F.Supp.2d 128 (2007)

The ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK, The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, and The Oneida of the Thames, Plaintiffs, and The United States of America, and The New York Brothertown Indian Nation, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. The State of NEW YORK, The County of Madison, New York, and The County of Oneida, New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

May 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline A. Judge, William W. Taylor, III, Michael R. Smith, Zuckerman, Spaeder Law Firm, Arlinda Faye Locklear, Office of Arlinda Locklear, Washington, DC, Meghan Murphy Beakman, Peter D. Carmen, Oneida Indian Nation, Verona, NY, Rowan D. Wilson, Cravath, Swaine Law Firm, Carey R. Ramos, Paul, Weiss Law Firm, Robert S. Smith, Office of Robert S. Smith, New York City, Daan Braveman, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Steven Miskinis, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, William H. Pease, Office of the United States Attorney, Syracuse, NY, Marilyn Ward Ford, Quinnipiac Law School, Hamden, CT, for Plaintiffs-Intervenors.

Christopher W. Hall, David B. Roberts, Office of Attorney General, Albany, NY, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

KAHN, District Judge.

This action is brought by three Oneida tribal groups — the Oneida Indian Nation of New York ("New York Oneidas"), the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, and the Oneida of the Thames (collectively, the "Oneidas" or "Plaintiffs"). Plaintiffs seek redress for allegedly unlawful transfers of approximately 250,000 acres of land in central New York. The United States intervened as a plaintiff...

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