The federal government’s seizure of 13,000 acres of land in central New York to take into trust for an American Indian Nation does not violate the Constitution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.
Rejecting a challenge by the towns of Verona and Vernon, a civic association and some residents, the circuit said the land-to-trust procedures used to take the land for the benefit of the Oneida Indian Nation so it can keep running a casino, are constitutional.
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