Legal Opinion
Maine v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 8, 2007No. 04-1363, 04-1375PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
This case presents a three-way dispute among two Indian tribes, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the State of Maine (“Maine”). The two tribes are the Penobscot Nation and the Passa-maquoddy Tribe (collectively, “the southern tribes”). Also involved are two different statutory regimes: the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. (2000), which the EPA administers in the first instance, and a pair of interlocking federal and state statutes—the Settlement Acts 1 —that govern Maine’s authority vis-a-vis Maine tribes.
Among other things, the Clean Water Act…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Mangual v. Rotger-SabatCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2003
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Penobscot Nation v. MillsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2017
- Francis v. Dana-CummingsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2008
- Penobscot Nation v. MillsDistrict Court, D. Maine · 2015
- Penobscot Nation v. MillsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2017
- Penobscot Nation v. MillsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2017
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