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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 05:0701 Maritime Subsidy Board

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United 

States District 

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For the Northern District of California 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

REDDING RANCHERIA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SALLY JEWELL, in her official 

capacity as the Secretary of the 

United States Department of the 

Interior, and KEVIN K. WASHBURN, 

in his official capacity as the 

Assistant Secretary for Indian 

Affairs for the United States 

Department of the Interior,1

 

Defendants. 

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Case No. 11-1493 SC 

ORDER REMANDING TO 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

On March 20, 2015 the Court received the mandate of the Ninth 

Circuit in the above-captioned case. ECF No. 34 ("Mandate"). The 

mandate and opinion of the Ninth Circuit, ECF No. 33 ("Opinion") 

affirmed in part and reversed in part the Court's order granting 

summary judgment to Defendants Sally Jewell and Kevin K. Washburn. 

ECF No. 34 ("Mandate"). Specifically, the Ninth Circuit affirmed 

the Court's judgment "insofar as it upholds the Secretary's denial 

of the Tribe's application to operate multiple casinos on restored 

lands." Opinion at 18. The judgment was reversed in part, 

however, with instructions to "remand to the agency for 

 

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 Secretary Jewell and Assistant Secretary Washburn are 

automatically substituted for their predecessors pursuant to 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d). 

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United 

States District 

Court

For the Northern District of California 

consideration of the Tribe's proposal to close its existing gaming 

operation upon construction of a new facility." Id. at 18-19. 

Accordingly, consistent with the Ninth Circuit's mandate and 

opinion, this case is REMANDED to the Department of the Interior to 

consider the Tribe's proposal. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: March 24, 2015 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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