July 06, 2015
A pair of officials for the Quapaw Tribe said Monday sovereign immunity shields them and other tribal leaders from Kansas' lawsuit over a plan to expand the tribe's Oklahoma casino across the border into Kansas, urging a federal judge to throw out the case.
June 15, 2015
Agencies and officials of Oklahoma's Quapaw tribe asked a Kansas federal judge Monday to free them from Kansas' suit targeting a proposed casino, arguing the tribe is immune and its officers cannot be sued individually over the proposal under the Indian Gaming Restoration Act.
May 27, 2015
The U.S. government asked a Kansas federal judge Tuesday to dismiss the state of Kansas' suit claiming federal regulators wrongly allowed Oklahoma's Quapaw tribe to use trust land for a casino, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the state's claims.
April 17, 2015
The state of Kansas asked a federal judge Thursday to block the Quapaw tribe from taking any action to build and operate any casino in Cherokee County in its suit alleging the National Indian Gaming Commission wrongly allowed the tribe to use trust land for the project.
March 11, 2015
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed suit to block an Oklahoma Indian tribe from expanding its casino across the border from Oklahoma into Kansas, claiming that the tribe misled federal regulators about its intentions for a small plot of land in the state.
March 10, 2015
The state of Kansas hit the National Indian Gaming Commission with a complaint Monday in Kansas federal court, alleging the agency wrongly allowed an Oklahoma tribe to use trust land for a casino under an exception to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act after the tribe said it wouldn't use the land for gaming.