03-3218 -- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Wagnon -- 11/07/2006

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PUBLISH

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.	No. 03-3218
JOAN WAGNON, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue, Defendant-Appellee, _______________________________	D.C. No. 99-CV-4071-JAR (D. Kansas) (241 F. Supp. 2d 1295 (Kan. 2003))
WINNEBAGO TRIBE OF NEBRASKA, HCI DISTRIBUTION, THE KICKAPOO TRIBE OF INDIANS OF THE KICKAPOO RESERVATION IN KANSAS, THE IOWA TRIBE OF KANSAS AND NEBRASKA, AND THE SAC AND FOX NATION OF MISSOURI, Amici Curiae.

OPINION ON REMAND FROM THE

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

David Prager, III, Tribal Attorney, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John Michael Hale, Special Assistant Attorney General, Kansas Department of Revenue, Topeka, Kansas, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before LUCERO, McKAY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

In view of the Supreme Court's decision in Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, 546 U.S. ___, 126 S. Ct. 676 (2005), and after supplemental hearing, the prior decision of this court is vacated, as is the portion of the district court's opinion that applies the interest-balancing test. The order of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant is AFFIRMED.

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