Fort Belknap Indian Community v. State Of Montana

84 F.3d 1222, 96 Daily Journal DAR 6607, 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4075, 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 13482

Opinion

84 F.3d 1222

The FORT BELKNAP INDIAN COMMUNITY OF the FORT BELKNAP INDIAN
RESERVATION, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
STATE OF MONTANA, Robert L. Robinson, individually and as
Administrator, Gambling Control Division, Department of
Justice, State of Montana; Stan Stephens, individually and
as Governor, State of Montana; Marc Racicot, individually
and as Attorney General, State of Montana, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 94-35126.

United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.

June 7, 1996.

James L. Vogel, Hardin, Montana, for plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph P. Mazurek, Attorney General, and Deanne L. Sandholm, Assistant Attorney General, Helena, Montana, for defendants-appellees.

On Remand from the United States Supreme Court.

Before: BEEZER and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and ORRICK, Senior District Judge.*

ORDER

The judgment of this court, 39 F.3d 1186 (Table), is vacated. For the reasons stated by the Supreme Court in Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, --- U.S. ----, 116 S.Ct. 1114, 134 L.Ed.2d 252 (1996), we affirm the judgment of the district court.

AFFIRMED.

* The Honorable William H. Orrick, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation