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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Breach of Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN PASQUAL BAND OF MISSION

INDIANS, a federally recognized Indian

Tribe,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 06cv0988-LAB (AJB)

ORDER GRANTING

CALIFORNIA TRIBAL BUSINESS

ALLIANCE AND THE RUMSEY

BAND OF WINTUN INDIANS

LEAVE TO FILE AN AMICI

CURIAE BRIEF; and

[Dkt No. 24]

vs.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA

GAMBLING CONTROL COMMISSION, an

Agency of the State for California, and

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, as

Governor of the State of California,

Defendants.

Plaintiff San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians (“San Pasqual”) sues the State of California, the

California Gambling Control Commission, and the state Governor in this action seeking a judicial

determination of the correct number of gaming device licenses authorized in the aggregate by the State

Aggregate Limit formula contained in the 1999 Tribal-State Gaming Compact between San Pasqual

and the State. Defendants have filed a Motion To Dismiss plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint

pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. (“Rule”) 12(b)(7) and Rule 19, calendared to be heard January 22, 2007,

alleging all other Compact signatory tribes are necessary and indispensable parties to this action but

have not been joined, and purportedly cannot be joined because of their sovereign immunity from suit.

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The California Tribal Business Alliance (“CTBA”) and the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians

(“Rumsey”) together applied for leave to file a brief as amici curiae. CTBA represents it is an

association of five federally recognized tribes formed in 2004 to address an array of public policy

matters. It lists its members as the Pala Band of Mission Indians, the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki

Indians, the Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians, the United Auburn Indian Community, and the Viejas

Band of Kumeyaay Indians. CTBA says four of its members are signatories to the first five

renegotiated and amended gaming compacts entered into in 2004 with California’s Governor

Schwarzenegger. Rumsey represents it is the fifth tribe to renegotiate an amended gaming compact

with the state. Because of their status, it appears CTBA and Rumsey will be able to provide the Court

with valuable briefing from a different perspective than any party or amicus.

In consideration of this court’s Standing Order regarding leave to file amicus curiae briefs,

CTBA and Rumsey have made a persuasive showing that the reasoning in Voices For Choices v.

Illinois Bell Telephone Co., 339 F.3d 542 (7th Cir. 2003), adopted as this court’s standard for deciding

whether to permit the filing of amicus curiae briefs, applied to these circumstances, warrants

consideration of the perspectives CTBA and Rumsey bring to the issues presented in defendants’

Motion. Accordingly, CTBA’s and Rumsey’s request is GRANTED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 18, 2007

HONORABLE LARRY ALAN BURNS

United States District Judge

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