An American Indian tribe that operates gaming in northern Wisconsin waited too long to challenge another tribe’s casino expansion in the same county, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
The suit by the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, a federally recognized tribe, seeking an injunction against a casino expansion by the Ho-Chunk Nation is untimely under the Administrative Procedure Act and Wisconsin’s statute of limitations for breach of contract, the court said.
The time for challenging whether the land on which the Ho-Chunk casino sits was held in trust for the tribe before 1988—a prerequisite under federal gaming law—began running in 1986. That is the ...
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