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JUNE 15, 2000

Officials from the towns of Ledyard and North Stonington are optimistic about the still pending outcome of a federal court challenge to the expansion of the Mashantucket Pequot reservation. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing in January over the addition of 165 acres to the tribe's Connecticut reservation.

In 1995, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs approved the tribe's request to bring the land into trust. But a federal judge in Connecticut in 1998 ruled that the BIA erred in granting the approval. The Justice Department appealed that decision to the Court of Appeals on behalf of the BIA.

The towns' law firm, Perkins Coie, said the delay in the outcome has no direct bearing on the possibility of a ruling favoring the towns.

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Suit over adding to reservation in hands of judges for 6 months (The New London Day 6/15)

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