United States Ninth Circuit
Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Cmty. v. State of California, 06-16145
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In an Indian tribe's action challenging the California Gambling Control Commission's interpretation of a gaming compact and the Commission's assumption of authority to administer unilaterally the licensing of electronic gaming devices, grant of the state's motion for judgment on the pleadings is reversed in part where, for purposes of Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, tribes absent from the action were not required parties for it.
Appellate Information
- Argued 04/09/2008
- Decided 08/08/2008
- Published 08/08/2008
Judges
- Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- George Forman, Forman & Associates, San Rafael, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Christine M. Murphy, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA (briefs); Peter H. Kaufman, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, CA (oral argument); for the defendants-appellees.