Rosales

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Walter ROSALES, et al., Case No.: 23-cv-0908-AGS-JLB Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

REMAND (ECF 4), GRANTING IN

v.

PART MOTIONS TO DISMISS

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF (ECF 21 & 23), GRANTING IN PART SAN DIEGO, et al., MOTIONS FOR SANCTIONS 7 (ECF 34 & 39), MOOTING Defendants. REMAINING MOTIONS (ECF 17 & 22), AND CLOSING CASE

This feud dates back three decades. In the early 1990s, some “Kumeyaay Indians” held a leadership election with fateful consequences for their tribe, the “Jamul Indian Village.” See Jamul Action Comm. v. Simermeyer, 974 F.3d 984, 989 (9th Cir. 2020). Plaintiffs lost that vote. The new leadership then chose to “build and operate a casino” and hotel on the Village’s tribal land. Id. at 990. Plaintiffs opposed that plan. And they did not go quietly. In the ensuing years, they brought over 20 “legal actions” before “tribal tribunals, administrative boards, and federal courts in the courts of California…