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SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION v. KEMPTHORNE

No. 3:06-cv-00081 (PCD).

587 F.Supp.2d 389 (2008)

SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION, Petitioner, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE, Secretary, Department of the Interior, et al., Respondents, State of Connecticut, Kent School Corporation, The Connecticut Light and Power Company, and Town of Kent, Intervenor-Respondents.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

August 26, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Paul Spinella, Law Offices of A. Paul Spinella & Assoc., Hartford, CT, David K. Jaffe, Beown, Paindiris & Scott, Hartford, CT, Eric D. Eberhard, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Seattle, WA, Glenn M. Salvo, Thomas M. Jancik, Vernle C. (Skip) Durocher, Jr., Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, Judith A. Shapiro, Washington, DC, Steven David Ecker, Thomas J. Murphy, Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy, L.L.C., Hartford, CT, for Petitioner.

John B. Hughes, U.S. Attorney's Office, New Haven, CT, Sara E. Culley, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

David J. Elliott, Day Pitney LLP, Susan Quinn Cobb, Mark F. Kohler, Robert J. Deichert, Attorney General's Office, Hartford, CT, Jeffrey B. Sienkiewicz, Sienkiewicz, McKenna & Sienkiewicz, New Milford, CT, James K. Robertson, Jr., Richard L. Street, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, CT, for Intervenor-Respondents.

Robin Coggswell, Rex, GA, pro se.

RULING ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

PETER C. DORSEY, District Judge.

This case concerns the politically loaded question of whether the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation ("STN" or "Petitioner") constitutes an Indian tribe within the meaning of federal law as provided in the federal acknowledgment regulations, 25 C.F.R. Part 83 (1994). On October 11, 2005, Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior James E. Cason issued a Reconsidered Final Determination...

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