United States First Circuit

In a Native American tribe's suit for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the Maine Human Rights Commission from hearing an employment complaint against it, dismissal is affirmed where, even if the tribe were not precluded from bringing the lawsuit based on the outcome of a previous lawsuit against the Commission, it is clear that the tribe would lose on the merits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2007
• Published 04/17/2007

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas J. Luckerman, with whom Law Office of Douglas J. Luckerman, Michael A. Duddy, Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman, and David Kaplan were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher C. Taub, Assistant Attorney General, with whom G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, and John P. Gause, Counsel to the Maine Human Rights Commission, were on brief, for appellees Ryan, Maine Human Rights Commission Members, and Rowe.