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Date Posted: 09:34:10 06/07/01 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Suspended Seminole Leader Sues Tribe


Wednesday, June 6, 2001

Story last updated at 03:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Suspended Seminole leader James Billie sues tribe



The Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - James Billie has sued the Seminole Tribe of Florida, saying the Tribal Council did not have the authority to suspend him as chairman.

The lawsuit - filed in U.S. District Court - asks the council to reinstate Billie and give him back pay dating to his suspension, said Billie's attorney, Robert Saunooke, on Tuesday.

Saunooke said he plans to argue in court that the tribal constitution has no guidelines for suspending an elected leader. There are guidelines for removing a leader with a recall petition, but those were not followed, he said.

Billie, 57, led the tribe for 22 years and developed its highly profitable gambling operation. He was suspended indefinitely on May 24 after Christine O'Donnell, the tribe's former director of administration, charged in a federal lawsuit that Billie had gotten her pregnant, forced her to have an abortion and then fired her.

Billie was initially reluctant to file the lawsuit, Saunooke said, preferring that the tribe consider his case.

The lawsuit, which was filed late Monday, names the tribe, Tribal general counsel Jim Shore and the four other members of the Tribal Council as defendants.

Information from: The Miami Herald

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