Cherokee Nation v. United States Department of Interior

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THE CHEROKEE NATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 20-2167 (TJK) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiffs are four Native American tribes who each operate casinos in Oklahoma under a tribal-gaming compact with Oklahoma under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. In their opera- tive complaint, they seek to have set aside four tribal-gaming compacts for casino operations that four other Native American tribes in Oklahoma submitted to the Secretary of the Department of the…