Mashantucket Pequot Tribe v. Town of Ledyard

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “Thomas [and other pre-Bracker non-Indian lessee cases] inform[]” but do not forgo a Bracker analysis
• noting that IGRA “was intended to expressly preempt the field in the governance of gaming activity on Indian lands”
• finding that a tax on slot-machine lessors that leased to tribes conferred standing on tribes to sue for injunction against the tax
• observing that standing is not established “by mere assertions of trespass to tribal sovereignty”
• upholding imposition of Connecticut’s personal property tax on nonmember lessors of slot machines used by the tribe at its on-reservation casino
• finding injury in fact based on “measurable interference in the Tribe’s sovereignty on its reservation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).