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Jamul Indians can sue judge says
JAMUL, Calif. - A federal judge ruled Jan. 9 that the small Indian reservation Jamul can proceed with its lawsuit against California highway officials. The reservation, known as the Jamul Indian Village, sued Caltrans for allegedly imposing on its sovereign rights by requiring the tribe to go through a full environmental impact study in its plans to build a casino. Read More...
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Senator Feinstein has introduced legislation banning the expansion of Casino San Pablo (SF Bay Area) without the federal oversight provided by a two-part determination. (Read Press Release)
Bill S.338 (Read the Bill)
This legislation is a step towards the development of sound and well reasoned public policy on tribal gaming. Support for this legislation is helpful to all who are concerned with the acquisition of new lands for off reservation casinos. While this legislation is specific to the Lytton Band in San Pablo near San Francisco Bay, it is important to support legislation that requires newly acquired lands for gaming to process through a two-part determination. Discretionary land acquisitions or "two-part determinations" for gaming provide greater opportunity for communities of citizens, local and state government to assert their legitimate concerns over the development of a casino.
Please send a letter in support of S.338 to:
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein Attn: Dan Wessel
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
FX: 202-228-3954
INVESTMENTS IN INDIAN COUNTRY INCLUDED IN BILL TO CREATE JOBS, BOOST ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 1/28/09
(WASHINGTON , D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) call for the economic stimulus package moving through Congress to include substantial investments in Indian Country is reflected in legislation approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee today.
A letter to Senator Dorgan,
With tribal gaming making over $25 billion last year, NONE of this money better be going to tribes with casinos! The tribes with casinos have more than enough money for their health services, education, roads and bridges, water, public safety, and housing. Since they are not paying property taxes in the community they are living then I as a taxpayer do not want to be paying for a tribe that has a casino or who will use taxpayer money to get a casino.
Please send your letter to:
Senator Byron Dorgan
US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
President Obama
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JAC Community Alert
SDGE Substation Proposal
In August 2008 we told you of the unveiling of SDG&E's plans for a major substation and transmission lines they are planning to build in the center of downtown Jamul. The substation will supposedly be hidden by a 16-18 ft. block wall. The planned transmission lines from Rancho San Diego to Jamul would be steel poles, gunmetal gray or rust brown, 65 to 80 ft. tall and proposed to follow highway 94.
At the most recent Planning Group meeting SDG&E was asked about other sites in Jamul that would be of less impact than the Simpson property. They have agreed to look at other properties.
Please attend the next sub-committee meeting on February 24th at 6pm at the Oak Grove Middle School Library. |
Judge rules Indian Housing Agency does not have to provide full due process in eviction of disenrolled Indian 2/10/2009
Valley Center, CA- The judge for the Intertribal Court of Southern California granted a request by the All Mission Indian Housing Authority (AMIHA), a tribal housing consortium in Southern California, to evict a disenrolled member of the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians from here home on the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation.
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Deputies: Couple Leave Ill Man In Car Outside Casino 2/10/2009
VALLEY CENTER, Calif. -- A woman and man were in custody Tuesday for allegedly leaving her ill father inside an unheated car outside a casino while they gambled for hours, a San Diego County sheriff's sergeant said. The 72-year-old man had just been released from a hospital last Thursday and required monitoring, Sgt. Mark Varnau said.
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Whistle-blower lawsuit against Viejas dismissed
2/3/2009
A federal administrative law judge last week dismissed the whistle-blower lawsuit of the former head of public works for the Viejas Indian reservation, saying the claim was not filed in time. The finding means that the judge doesn't have to decide whether Jamal Kanj was fired in 2005, as he claims, for complaining about a tribal elder's cows polluting a creek, or as the tribe claims, for bungling a construction project he oversaw.
"We're very disappointed with the decision, obviously," said Scott McMillan, Kanj's lawyer.
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