United States Tenth Circuit

Pub. L. 98-602, which mandated that the Interior Secretary purchase particular plots of land in trust for the Wyandotte Indian tribe, did not require the Interior Secretary to comply with NEPA, 42 USC 4321 et seq., nor the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2001
• Published 02/27/2001

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge, Before HENRY, BRISCOE, Circuit Judges, and JENKINS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John R. Shordike,Alexander & Karshmer, Berkeley, California, for the appellant Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri (Thomas Weathers, Alexander & Karshmer, for the appellant Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri;  Stephen D. McGiffert and Mark S. Gunnison, Payne & Jones, Chartered, Overland Park, Kansas, for the appellants Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri and Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska;  M.J. Willoughby, Assistant Attorney General, Topeka, Kansas, for the appellant Bill Graves;  Mason D. Morisset and M. Frances Ayer, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, Washington, for the appellant Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians, with him on the brief).


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey C. Dobbins, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., (Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General;  Jackie N. Williams, United States Attorney;  Jackie Rapstine, Assistant United States Attorney;  David C. Shilton, Department of Justice;  John Jasper, of counsel, with him on the brief), for the appellee Bruce Babbitt., David McCullough (Michael Minis and Michael McMahan, with him on the brief), Michael Minis & Associates, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the appellee Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma.