United States Ninth Circuit

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act allows the State of California to grant a monopoly on casino-style gaming to the Indian tribes. The monopoly granted through Tribal-State Compacts pursuant to Proposition 1A does not violate Plaintiffs' rights to equal protection of the laws.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/14/2003
• Decided 12/22/2003
• Published 12/22/2003

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before REINHARDT and GRABER, Circuit Judges, and RHOADES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Hamilton,Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellants., James C. Martin and Ezra Hendon, Reed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP, Oakland, CA;  Fred Jones, Law Offices of Fred Jones, Auburn, CA;  Arturo N. Fierro, Cerritos, CA;  Neil Vincent Wake, Law Offices of Neil Vincent Wake, Phoenix, AZ;  and Frank R. Lawrence, Holland & Knight LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund F. Brennan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, and Marc A. Le Forestier, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees.