ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF WIS. v. STATE OF N.Y.

No. 580, Docket 83-7782.

732 F.2d 259 (1984)

ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF WISCONSIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, Oneida of the Thames Band, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Coulter, Washington, D.C. (Curtis G. Berkey, Indian Law Resource Center, Washington, D.C., Gary Kelder and Daan Braveman, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant Oneida of the Thames Band.

Richard Dauphinais, Washington, D.C. (Arlinda Locklear, Native American Rights Fund, Washington, D.C., Francis Skenandore, Oneida Tribal Law Office, Oneida, Wis., Norman Dorsen, New York University Law School, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin.

Allan Van Gestel, Boston, Mass. (Jeffrey C. Bates, Christopher S. Dalton, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, Mass., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and BRIEANT, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Northern District of New York (Neal P. McCurn, Judge) granting a motion to disqualify counsel for one of two plaintiffs in a complex suit by two Indian tribes claiming title to land in upstate New York. See Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. New York, 691 F.2d 1070 (2d Cir.1982). The order disqualified Robert T. Coulter, Esq., counsel for plaintiff Oneida...

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