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MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBE v. TOWN OF LEDYARD

Docket Nos. 12-1727-cv(L), 12-1735-cv(CON).

722 F.3d 457 (2013)

MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF LEDYARD; Paul Hopkins, Tax Assessor, Town of Ledyard; Joan Carroll, Tax Collector, Town of Ledyard, Defendants-Appellants, State of Connecticut, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 15, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric D. Miller ( Benjamin S. Sharp , Jennifer A. MacLean , on the brief), Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA and Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants Town of Ledyard, Paul Hopkins, and Joan Carroll.

Robert J. Deichert , Assistant Attorney General, for George Jepsen, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant State of Connecticut.

Skip Durocher ( Mary J. Streitz , James K. Nichols , on the brief), Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellee Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Circuit Judge, CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (the "Tribe") challenges the Town of Ledyard's (the "Town") imposition of the State of Connecticut's (the "State") personal property tax on the lessors of slot machines used by the Tribe at Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods (collectively "Foxwoods"), located in Ledyard, Connecticut. See Conn. Gen.Stat. §§ 12-40 et seq. (the "tax"). The Tribe filed complaints in August 2006...

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