MUSCOGEE (CREEK) v. POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS

Civil Action No. 2:12cv1079-MHT.

525 F.Supp.3d 1359 (2021)

MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION, a federally recognized Indian tribe, et al., Plaintiffs, v. POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS, a federally recognized Indian tribe, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

Signed March 15, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren J. King , Foster Garvey PC, Seattle, WA, Stewart Davidson McKnight, III , Dillard, McKnight, James & McElroy LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs.

Catherine F. Munson , Pro Hac Vice, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Washington, DC, Charles Alexander Dauphin , Dauphin Paris LLC, Vestavia Hills, AL, Mark H. Reeves , Pro Hac Vice, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Augusta, GA, for Defendants Billy Smith, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stephanie A. Bryan, Robert R. McGhee, Sandy Hollinger, Keith Martin, Arthur Mothershed, Garvis Sells, Eddie L. Tullis, Buford Rolin, David Gehman, PCI Gaming Authority, Timothy A. Manning, Tribal Defendants.

Mark H. Reeves , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Augusta, GA, for Defendants Amy Bryan, Charlotte Meckel, Dewitt Carter, Larry Haikey, Westly L. Woodruff, Teresa E. Poust.

Dennis Mitchell Henry , Frank Eady Bankston, Jr. , Webster Henry Bradwell Cohan Speagle & Deshazo PC, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant Martin Construction, Inc.

Devon Lehman McCune , US DOJ Environmental & Natural Resources, Denver, CO, James Joseph DuBois , U. S. Attorney's Office, Montgomery, AL, Jody Helen Schwarz , U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resource, Washington, DC, for Defendants The Department of the Interior, Tara MacLean Sweeney, David Bernhardt, Federal Defendants.

Devon Lehman McCune , US DOJ Environmental & Natural Resources, Denver, CO, for Defendant David Vela.

David Randall Boyd , Jordan Dorman Walker, Jr. , Griffin Lane Knight , Balch & Bingham LLP, Montgomery, AL, Jaime Stone Hammer , Morgan Mccue Sport , Auburn University, Auburn, AL, for Defendant Auburn University.


OPINION

This dispute concerns the use and ownership of a 34-acre tract of land south of Wetumpka, Alabama. The land sits at Hickory Ground, the last capital of the Creek Nation before the Tribe was forced from the eastern United States in the 1830s, an exodus known as the Trail of Tears...

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