ONEIDA INDIAN NATION v. COUNTY OF ONEIDA

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise A. Hartman , Assistant Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Andrew D. Bing , Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief, and Dwight Healy , White & Case, LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Andrew M. Cuomo , Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee State of New York.

Kathryn E. Kovacs , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. ( Ronald J. Tenpas , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Craig Alexander , Elizabeth Ann Peterson , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief, and Thomas Blaser , U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States of America.

Michael R. Smith ( David A. Reiser , on the brief), Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Oneida Indian Nation of New York.

Arlinda F. Locklear , Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin.

Carey R. Ramos , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Oneida of the Thames.

David M. Schraver ( David H. Tennant , on the brief), Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, NY, for Defendants-Cross-Appellees County of Oneida, County of Madison.

John Dossett and Virginia Davis , National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C., and Kim J. Gottschalk , Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO, for Amicus Curiae National Congress of American Indians.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, and GERSHON, District Judge.