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CACHIL DEHE BAND OF WINTUN INDIANS v. CALIFORNIA

No. 09-16942.

618 F.3d 1066 (2010)

CACHIL DEHE BAND OF WINTUN INDIANS OF the COLUSA INDIAN COMMUNITY, a federally recognized Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Appellee, Picayune Rancheria of the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-intervenor-Appellee, v. State of CALIFORNIA; California Gambling Control Commission, an agency of the State of California; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of the State of California, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 20, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Forman , Jay B. Shapiro (argued), Kimberly A. Cluff , Jeffrey R. Keohane , Forman & Associates, San Rafael, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Cachil Dehe Band; John M. Peebles , Darcie L. Houck (argued), Timothy J. Hennessy , Fredericks Peebles & Morgan, LLP, Sacramento, CA, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee, Picayune Rancheria.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Attorney General of California, Robert L. Mukai , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Drake , Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Peter H. Kaufman , Deputy Attorney General, Neil D. Houston , Deputy Attorney General (argued), Sacramento, CA, for defendants-appellants State of California.

Before: CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and DAVID G. CAMPBELL, District Judge.

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Who knew that simple math could be so tricky? The parties to this dispute, the State of California and two California Indian tribes, signed Gaming Compacts intended "to initiate a new era of tribal-state cooperation" with respect to gaming in the state. Central to the Compacts is a formula to calculate the number of gaming devices California tribes are permitted to license. How to interpret this opaquely...

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