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N I XON PEABODYLLP ATT0 1300 Clinton Square Rochester, New York 14604 (585) 263-1000 Fax: (585) 263-1600 Direct Dial: (585) 263-1341 E-Mail: [email protected] January 26, 2011 VIA E-MAIL AND HAND DELIVERY Clerk of the Court United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States Court House 40 Foley Square New York, New York 10007 Re: Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. Madison County and Oneida County, New York, et al., No. 05-6408-CV(L), 06-5168-CV(CON), 06-5515-CV(CO N) Dear Madam Clerk: This letter brief is submitted on behalf of Madison County and Oneida County, New York ("the Counties") pursuant to the January 18, 2011 Order of the Court. Preliminary Statement The Oneida Indian Nation ("OIN") enacted an ordinance on November 29, 2010 (JAL 5), purporting to waive the tribe's "sovereign immunity to enforcement of real property taxation through foreclosure." This development came after more than ten years of litigation in which the OIN aggressively asserted that: (1) the lands the OIN recently purchased in M adison County and Oneida Coun ty are sovereign Indian lands over which the State and Counties have no taxing authority (see City of S herrill v. Oneida Indian N ation of N ew Y ork, 544 U.S. 197 (2005) ("Sherrill")); and (2) the OIN's immunity from suit prevents any and all attempts by the Counties, following Sherrill, to collect lawfully-imposed real property taxes' – including vigorously opposing the C ounties' petition for a w rit of certiorari seeking to have the Su preme None of OIN's fee-owned properties have been taken into trust. The Secretary of the Interior's decision to take approximately 13,000 acres into trust is being challenged in New Y ork State v. Salazar, No. 6:08-cv-00644 13312023.7

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