Lawmakers in Cayuga County, New York, won't reverse their conditional approval of the Cayuga land claim settlement.

Last month, the lawmakers voted 9-6 in favor of the state's deal with the Cayuga Nation and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. The tribes would drop their claims in exchange for gaming rights in the Catskills.

County lawmaker George Fearon, a Republican, opposes the settlement. He asked his colleagues to reconsider their vote but they declined to at a meeting yesterday.

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Fearon pushes claim settlement fight (The Syracuse Post-Standard 2/23)

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