California Court of Appeal
County of Amador v. City of Plymouth, C050066
In case involving plan of Indian tribe to build a world-class gaming facility on land it has the option to purchase, judgment granting a peremptory writ of mandate invalidating a Municipal Services Agreement (MSA) between intervenor-tribe and defendant-city is affirmed as the city's decision to enter into the MSA without complying with CEQA was void and, thus, the MSA and its support of the trust application of the tribe was invalid.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/17/2007
- Published 04/17/2007
Judges
- BLEASE, Acting P.J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Holland & Knight, Paul C. Workman, Zehava Zevit, Los Angeles, and Amanda J. Monchamp, San Francisco, for Intervener and Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- John F. Hahn, County Counsel, Martha Jeanne Shaver, Assistant County Counsel, and Gregory Gillott, Deputy County Counsel; Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor and James R. Parrinello, Mill Valley, for Plaintiffs and Respondents County of Amador and Amador County Board of Supervisors., McDonough Holland & Allen, Stacey N. Sheston and Kara K. Ueda, Sacramento, for Plaintiffs and Respondents No Casino in Plymouth, Jon Colburn, and Dueward W. Cranford II.