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SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY v. BABBITT

No. 95-C-659-C.

929 F.Supp. 1165 (1996)

SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY (MOLE LAKE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA); Lac Courte Oreille Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs, v. Bruce C. BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; Michael J. Anderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; John J. Duffy, Counselor to the Secretary, United States Department of the Interior; and George Skibine, Director, Indian Gaming Management Staff, United States Department of the Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

June 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin C. Potter, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, S.C., Madison WI, for Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior.

Robert H. Friebert, Friebert Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee WI, for Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior.

Mark A. Cameli, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Madison WI, for Bruce C. Babbitt, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Michael J. Anderson, John J. Duffy and George Skibine.

OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are three Chippewa Indian tribes that applied to the Department of the Interior in October 1993, asking the United States to acquire in trust a greyhound racing facility in Hudson, Wisconsin for conversion into an off-reservation casino. The department denied plaintiffs' application after nearly two years of deliberations at the local and national levels. Plaintiffs responded by filing this civil action...

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