Free Motion to Amend/Correct - District Court of Connecticut - Connecticut

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. 43.47 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LITCHFIELD, TOWN OF KENT, ET AL., Defendants. SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION, Plaintiff, v. KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION, ET AL., Defendants. SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, Defendants. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3-00-CV-00820 (PCD) CIVIL ACTION NO. 3-98-CV-01113 (PCD) CIVIL ACTION NO. H-85-1078 (PCD)

July 14, 2005

MOTION OF AMICUS STATE OF CONNECTICUT TO SUPPLEMENT ITS OPPOSITION TO SCHAGHTICOKE TRIBAL NATION'S MOTION TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER The amicus State of Connecticut ("State") respectfully moves for leave to supplement its opposition to the motion to amend scheduling order filed by the Schaghticoke Tribal ORAL ARGUMENT NOT REQUESTED

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Nation ("STN"). Specifically, the State requests permission to submit the attached letter from Governor M. Jodi Rell, dated July 11, 2005, regarding the STN's motion. Although the State understands from chambers and reports of opposing counsel that the Court has ruled on the motion, the Governor has requested that the undersigned take steps to make her letter part of the record. Her comments are pertinent and important, persuasively supporting public interest concerns set forth in our own pleadings. The Governor's personal comments reinforce our legal and factual argument on behalf of our State's citizens. Her involvement in this issue reflects deeply felt and widely held convictions on her part and many others, which deserve respect and acknowledgement in the record. Her limited role in these proceedings for this purpose is appropriate and significant. Respectfully Submitted, AMICUS CURIAE, STATE OF CONNECTICUT RICHARD BLUMENTHAL ATTORNEY GENERAL

By:

____________________________ Richard Blumenthal (ct05924) Attorney General Mark F. Kohler (ct02272) Susan Q. Cobb (ct03850) Assistant Attorneys General 55 Elm Street P.O. Box 120 Hartford, CT 06141-0120 (860)808-5020 (860)808-5389(fax) [email protected] [email protected]

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CERTIFICATION

This certifies that the foregoing was served by first-class mail on all counsel and pro se parties of record this 14th day of July, 2005, as follows:

Eric W. Weichmann Salvatore N. Fornaciari McCarter & English LLC CityPlace I 185 Asylum Street Hartford, CT 06103 Judith Shapiro 6856 Eastern Aveneue, NW Washington, D.C. 20012 Jerry C. Strauss Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker 2120 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20037 Michael J. Burns 57 Pratt Street Hartford, CT 06103 David J. Elliott Day, Berry & Howard CityPlace I 185 Asylum Avenue Hartford, CT Jeffrey B. Sienkiewicz Sienkiewicz & McKenna, PC 9 South Main Street P.O. Box 786 New Milford, CT 06676-0786

James Fogarty Fogarty, Cohen, Selby & Nemiroff 88 Field Point Road P.O. Box 2508 Greenwich, CT 06386-2508 Richard L. Street Carmody & Torrance 50 Leavenworth Street P.O. Box 110 Waterbury, CT 06721 Robert A. Slavitt Slavitt, Connery & Vardamis 618 West Avenue Norwalk, CT 06850 Loretta E. Bonos 594 Bend View Drive Charleston, West Virginia 25314 Thomas Gugliotti Updike, Kelly & Spellacy One State Street Hartford, CT 06123 John B. Hughes Unites States Attorney's Office 157 Church Street P.O. Box 1824 New Haven, CT 06510

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Barbara N. Coen Division of Indian Affairs Office of the Solicitor U.S. Department of Interior 1849 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240

Renita Ford General Litigation Section Environmental & Natural Resources Division U.S. Department of Justice P.O. Box 663 Washington, D.C. 20004-0663

____________________________ Mark F. Kohler

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