Publication Date: 2016-11-14
Practice Area: Native American Law | Government
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Livingston, Chin, and Carney, C.JJ.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Upstate Citizens for Equality, Inc., David Brown Vickers, Richard Tallcot, Scott Peterman and Daniel T. Warren: David Brown Vickers, Fayetteville, NY. For Town of Vernon, Town of Verona, Abraham Acee and Arthur Strife: Cornelius D. Murray, O'Connell and Aronowitz, Albany, NY.
for defendant: For United States of America, individually, and as trustee of the goods, credits and chattels of the federally recognized Indian nations and tribes situated in the State of New York, Sally M.R. Jewell, in her official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Michael L. Connor, in his official capacity as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and exercising his delegated authority as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, Elizabeth J. Klein, in her official capacity as Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, United States Department of the Interior: John C. Cruden, Steven Miskinis, Jennifer Turner, on the brief, J. David Gunter II, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC.
Case Number: 15-1688
Cite as: Citizens For Equality v. US, 15-1688, NYLJ 1202772042307, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided November 9, 2016)CASE NAMEUpstate Citizens For Equality, Inc., Plain