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April 14, 2025
Constitutional Challenge to Fee to Trust Filed in the D.C. Federal District Court:
Plaintiffs Cranford, Colburn, Braun and the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, through their undersigned attorneys, file this Complaint for Civil Rights Violations, Declaratory, Injunctive and Monetary Relief against Federal and Individual Defendants for their ongoing violation of Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of the law under the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and for their ongoing violation of Plaintiffs’ civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 as enforced through 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs also allege that Federal and Individual Defendants engaged in a conspiracy against Plaintiffs by approving the federal recognition, fee-to-trust applications and the Indian gaming applications for the Ione Band of Miwok Indians under 42 U.S.C.§ 1985(3). Plaintiffs allege as follows:
Case 1:25-cv-01116 CERA COMPLAINT FOR FEDERAL CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND DECLARATORY, INJUNCTIVE AND MONETARY RELIEF
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