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AGREEMENT ALLOWING CASINO GAMBLING ON ONEIDA NATION LAND DID NOT VIOLATE TOWNS’ “HOME RULE” RIGHTS.

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Garry, determined the petitioners, the Town of Vernon and the Town of Verona, did not have standing to attack an agreement (ratified by the New York Gaming Economic Development Act of 2013 [UNYGEDA]) allowing the Oneida Nation to implement legalized casino gambling. The towns argued that the agreement violated the towns’ “home rule” rights by removing land from their zoning and environmental authority, as well as preventing the collection of property taxes. The Third Department held that it was the placing of Oneida Nation land in trust (by the federal Department of the Interior) which caused these negative consequences and the trust was created before the agreement at issue:

These negative consequences … did not result from the agreement or from the UNYGEDA, but, instead, from the decision by the Department to place the lands in trust. That decision had already been made when the agreement was executed, and it was unaffected by any State action other than the agreement’s provision that the State and the Counties would discontinue then-pending federal litigation that challenged the Department’s decision. In 2014, the State and Counties did so … . The State has no constitutional obligation to pursue litigation, nor have petitioners established that the litigation would have resulted in the reversal of the Department’s decision to place the lands in trust if it had not been settled. Further, the discontinuance of the State’s claims did not foreclose the Towns from pursuing separate federal litigation that challenged the Department’s action, which they did until the action was dismissed on the merits in 2015 … . Thus, the State’s actions did not cause the harm that forms the basis of the Towns’ claims. Accordingly, the Towns failed to establish that the agreement and the UNYGEDA impinged upon their home rule powers, and Supreme Court properly ruled that they lacked the capacity to bring this action/proceeding. Matter of Town of Verona v Cuomo, 2015 NY Slip Op 09338, 3rd Dept 12-17-15

MONTHLY COMPILATION INDEX ENTRIES:

MUNCIPAL LAW (AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTING CASINO GAMBLING ON ONEIDA NATION LAND DID NOT VIOLATE TOWNS’ HOME RULE RIGHTS)/HOME RULE (AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTING CASINO GAMBLING ON ONEIDA NATION LAND DID NOT VIOLATE TOWNS’ HOME RULE RIGHTS)/GAMBLING (AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTING CASINO GAMBLING ON ONEIDA NATION LAND DID NOT VIOLATE TOWNS’ HOME RULE RIGHTS)/ONEIDA NATION (AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTING CASINO GAMBLING ON ONEIDA NATION LAND DID NOT VIOLATE TOWNS’ HOME RULE RIGHTS)

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