United States Second Circuit
ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK v. CITY OF SHERRILL, 01-7795, 01-7797
Judgment establishing that property owned by plaintiff tribe in Sherrill is within Indian country and, consequently, exempt from local taxes is affirmed.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/21/2003
- Published 07/21/2003
Judges
- Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, MESKILL, and B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- G. Robert Witmer, Jr., Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, N.Y. (David M. Shraver, of counsel), for Amici Curiae-Appellants Madison County and Oneida County., Andrew D. Bing, Assistant Solicitor General, Albany, N.Y. (Caitlin J. Halligan, Daniel Smirlock, Peter H. Schiff, of counsel, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York), for Amicus Curiae State of New York.
- For Appellees:
- Ira S. Sacks, Fried, Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen New York, NY, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant., Michael R. Smith, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Washington, DC (William W. Taylor, III, David A. Reiser, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee and Consolidated-Defendants-Appellees.