Seneca Nation of Indians v. State of New York

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT W ESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SENECA NATION OF INDIANS, Petitioner, v. DECISION AND ORDER 19-CV-735S STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. I. INTRODUCTION The underlying dispute here concerns whether the Seneca Nation of Indians is required to pay the State of New York hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue-sharing payments under the terms of a 2002 gaming compact. A controlling majority of arbitrators recently held that the compact requires such payments. While this binding determination has widespread, directly inverse ramifications for the citizens of each party,…