United States Tenth Circuit

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act contains no implied private right of action in favor of an individual seeking to enforce compliance with the statute's provisions. The doctrine of exhaustion of tribal remedies applied to dismiss other claims arising from suspension of a gaming license.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2003
• Published 02/11/2003

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, PORFILIO, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Coulthard, Topeka, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeff R. Keohane, (William B. Lazarus and Todd S. Aagaard, Attorneys, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice and Thomas L. Sansonnetti, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief) Washington, D.C., for Federal Defendants-Appellees., Charley Laman, Topeka, KS, for Kickapoo Tribe Defendants-Appellees., Brian Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, (and Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General, on the brief) Topeka, KS, for State Defendants-Appellees.