Cape Wind: Justice Department Urges Swift Lawsuit Resolution Before Tax Breaks Expire

Gale Courey Toensing
April 25, 2013
Lawyers from the Department of Justice have urged a federal district court to speed up its review of pending lawsuits against a proposed massive wind energy installation in the cen...
Harold Monteau

Regarding Gaming Compacts and Their 'Illusory Exclusivity'

The tribal-state gaming compact between the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, recently submitted to the Department of Interior (DOI or Secretary) appears to have bumped Montana (tribes treated like tavern owners) out of 1st place for the distinction f...

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September 21, 2012

Quechan Tribe Sues to Halt Construction of Wind Factory on Sacred Land

Gale Courey Toensing
June 23, 2012
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area: “Removal, dist...

Mass. Gov Signs Gaming Bill; Mashpee Wampanoags Cheer

Gale Courey Toensing
November 22, 2011
The Mashpee Wampanoag tribal government will soon be able to conduct casino gaming in the Bay State and use the revenues to provide services for its citizens. Massachusetts Gov...

Aquinnah Wampanaog Tribe Wins $567,236 DoJ Grant

Gale Courey Toensing
September 29, 2011
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has won a $567,236 competitive grant for its judiciary department from the federal Department of Justice ...

Aquinnah Wampanoag Sues Feds Over Cape Wind

Gale Courey Toensing
July 14, 2011
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a massive offshore wind energy plant in an area of Nantucket Sound that is sacred to the P...

Cape Wind Bogged Down in Lawsuits

Gale Courey Toensing
January 12, 2011
Eight months after the Obama administration approved what it hopes will be America’s flagship offshore industrial wind energy factory in the waters of Nantucket Sound that are sacr...

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