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September 15, 2006 Response to the amicus curiae brief by the Seneca Nation of Indians
"The SNI's amicus curiae request for dismissal on the basis of its argument that the Nation (and the State) are necessary and indispensable to this action is procedurally infirm and substantively lacking in merit and, accordingly, should be denied."
August 19, 2006 Radio interview
with Retired Supreme Court Justice Robert Whalen at The Voice of Reason WHLD 1270AM Citizens Action Radio Show. Outstanding detail from a credible voice on the negative economics of the Buffalo Creek Casino.
August 12, 2006 Radio interview
with Joseph Finnerty at The Voice of Reason WHLD 1270AM Citizens Action Radio Show. Outstanding detail on the legal aspects of and the background to the Buffalo Creek Casino.
July 26, 2006 Motion for Summary Judgment
This motion asks the federal court to declare that gambling cannot be conducted on the Seneca Buffalo property because the land is not sovereign Indian Country and the owners cannot come within the few exceptions to federal statutory prohibitions against casino gambling of land acquired by Native Americans after 1988.
Notice of Motion for Summary Judgement (PDF)
Memorandum of Law
Notice of Motion
Statement of Undisputed Facts
Certificate of Service
Attorney Affidavit
Exhibit A-Indices to BIA and NIGC Administrative Records
Exhibit B-Summary of Title 25 Chapter 19
Exhibit C-SNSA Sen Rpt 101-511
Exhibit D-SNSAHse Rpt 101-832
Exhibit E-SNSA Hearing Materials (Part 1 of 2)
Exhibit E-SNSA Hearing Materials (Part 2 of 2)
Exhibit F-Senate Hearing 109-298
July 25, 2006 The Casino Shuffle: Two-Step, Three-Step, Side-Step
PDF explaining how abuses of the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 have been used to purchase off-reservation property and how provisions comprehensive review have been bypassed in the process.
July 11, 2006 CBB Policy Memorandum
PDF stating opinions and observations by the leaders of Citizens for a Better Buffalo
June 4, 2006 Bruce Fisher: "It ain't Seneca land."
The front page of the Buffalo News for 4 June 2006 featured an article by Michael Beebe, "For Senecas, return to Buffalo Creek helps right an old wrong," the gist of which seemed to be that since the Buffalo Creek area was aboriginal Seneca land, it was only reasonable that they should establish there a tax-exempt casino that would drain Buffalo's economy. The problem, argues Deputy Erie County Executive Bruce Fisher, is that Beebe's article is predicated on a fundamental error of fact: Buffalo Creek was never aboriginal Seneca territory. (4 June 2006)
June 1, 2006 Bruce Jackson: The Nine Biggest Lies About the Proposed Buffalo Creek Casino (Artvoice)
A few days ago the Buffalo News published a letter from developer Carl Paladino that consisted of one lie after another about the proposed Seneca gambling joint in downtown Buffalo. The letter is not unlike the massive disinformation campaign the Seneca Gaming Corporation unleashed on all Buffalo television and most Buffalo radio stations last month. What's so scary about the truth that has those guys spending so much time, effort and money trying to hide it?
June 1, 2006 Bruce Jackson: Barry Snyder and Byron Brown to Buffalo and Joel Giambra: Screw you!
Five images from the Senecas' downtown destruction site. Do you think the city of Buffalo would have let the Seneca gambling organization demolish structures in the heart of town without any serious environmental studies if the mayor's and council members' children were downwind, living in those projects, playing on those streets?
May 16, 2006 Bruce Jackson: The H-O Oats grain elevator and the Seneca wrecking ball: two photographs
The Seneca Gaming Corporation, which wants to set up a gambling joint in downtown Buffalo, is poised to wreck another structure on the site they purchased from Buffalo developer Carl Paladino and other sellers. Here are two photographs of what they'd like to destroy this time.
May 15, 2006 Bruce L. Fisher: Erie County Executive Joel A. Giambra sues Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown and others to stop illegal Seneca Gaming Corporation demolition in Buffalo
Erie County's Commissioner of Environment and Planning has issued an order instructing the Senecas' demolition contractor to stop wrecking things, and Erie County has sued the of Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown and several other city officials to force them to start obeying local and state environmental laws.
September 9, 2004 US Court of Appeals: Affirming Judge Arcara in the Grand Island land claims case
9 September 2004
Summary of the Federal claim
A PDF summary of the Federal complaint filed January 3, 2006
February 1, 2006 Press conference announcing the petition in state court
This mp3 file includes introductory remarks by coordinating attorney Joseph Finnerty, an eloquent statements on what harm the casino would do the neighborhood by Reverend Keith H. Scott, a statement explaining Wendt Foundation support by trustee Tom Lunt, and an explanation of the terms of both lawsuits by Robert Knoer, who led the team filing the state suit.
January 27, 2006 Summary of petition against New York State
put forth to claim that the actions of the government officials were improper in that they failed to comply with SEQRA
January 27, 2006 New York State petition
put forth to claim that the actions of the government officials were improper in that they failed to comply with SEQRA
January 4, 2006 Dianne Bennett: Casinos are simply bad business.
The only people who profit from a downtown casino are the people who own them and the people who build them. Everyone else, from local business owners, to city residents, to ordinary works, loses. A downtown casino isn't development; it kills development.
January 3, 2006 The Federal complaint filed
PDF, arguing that the proposed Seneca casino in downtown Buffalo is illegal, and naming as plaintiffs Secretary f the Interior Gale Norton, the National Indian Gaming Commission and others. 4 January 2006)
December 30, 2005 John J. LaFalce statement.
One of the authors of federal act used by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to justify ceding Buffalo land to the Seneca nation for the purpose of building a casino says he stands by his earlier letter to Norton saying the act does not apply to the Buffalo situation at all.
October 5, 2005 Statement by The Network of Religious Communities
An extraordinary statement against the casino signed by two dozen religious communities.
September 29, 2005 Chris Jacobs, Mary Bartley, Bruce Jackson, Rev. Dr. G. Stanford Bratton: Why a gambling joint in the heart of Buffalo is a lousy idea and an illegal deal.
Four Buffalo activists tell the Common Council's Community Development Subcommittee why the Buffalo News was dead wrong when it editorialized that a downtown casino is a done deal and Buffalonians should just make the best of it. (29 September 2005)
September 15,2005 Forever Elmwood statement opposing a Buffalo casino
suggesting that a casino is bad public policy.
March 11, 2004 Open letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
from Bishop John Hopkins of the Minnesota United Methodist Church
February 24, 2004 Buffalo-Niagara Partnership: Opposition to a Seneca Casino in Downtown Buffalo
The Partnership's statement opposition locating a casino in the Buffalo Convention Center (which was then one of the possible sites) or any lace else in the city on the grounds that it would destroy local businesses and e a disincentive to investment.
November 7, 2003 Statement by the Senecas For Justice and Preservation to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
stating the Seneca Nation Corporation was founded as a non-profit organization
September 24, 2002 New Millenium Group Statement of Position
opposing the Pataki - Seneca Compact for six reasons.
September 3, 2002 Rep. John J. LaFalce to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
telling her that the Seneca Settlement Act, of which he was co-author, does not authorize an Indian casino in downtown Buffalo. Norton ignored his advice, which lead to the lawsuit filed January 3, 2006.
April 12, 2002 The Pataki-Seneca Compact
(1.5Mb nonprintable PDF) You won't find this 793 page document on any New York State website currently, nor will you find it in the City of Buffalo's website. You can't print any part of it! You'd almost think they didn't want you to see it. (The Central Library in Buffalo has the Compact in hard copy in two volumes.)
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