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This article is a statement issued by Wyoming District Court
explaining the dismissal of the case. Basically, they side-stepped
the whole issue of who rules--county sheriff or feds. There has been
a lot of mistatement, misunderstanding, & phony baloney re this
case. The sheriff himself stated about 95% of what is reported on
internet is incorrect.

Case Notes:

Case: Castaneda v. USA

Filed: 10th May 1996

Closed: 29th April 1997

Case No: 2:1996cv00099 Wyoming District Court, Casper

Nature of Suit: Civil Rights

http://www.ck10.uscourts.gov/wyoming/district/pdfforms/96cv99.pdf

United States District Court

District of Wyoming

Our office has been receiving inquiries regarding the case of
Castaneda v. United

States, No. 96-CV-099.

This was a civil case arising out of an alleged entry into an
apartment by law

enforcement officials in June of 1993. The Plaintiffs, who were
staying in the apartment,

alleged that the officials violated their civil rights. They filed
an action against the United

States, unnamed INS agents, Big Horn County, the County Sheriff, and
unnamed

Sheriff's deputies.

The complaint was filed in the Federal District Court for the
District of Wyoming in May,

1996. The federal defendants were primarily represented by attorneys
with the

Constitutional Torts Branch of the Civil Division of the Department
of Justice. The

County defendants were represented by non-federal attorneys. The
case was settled

following a settlement conference in 1997. The court did not rule on
Plaintiffs' claims or

any other legal issues in the case. After the settlement conference,
Big Horn County

Sheriff, David M. Mattis, issued a "Policy." In the "Policy," the
Sheriff purports to impose

conditions upon federal law enforcement operations in the County.

We have learned that it has been reported, erroneously, that the
court made a legal

ruling in the Castaneda case regarding the authority of federal law
enforcement officials

to conduct operations in the County. There was no such ruling or
decision. Instead, the

court simply granted a motion, submitted jointly by all the parties,
to dismiss the case

because the parties had settled.

This Court has never issued an order which would serve to limit the
lawful activities and

duties of federal law enforcement officers and other federal
employees in the District of

Wyoming.

Furthermore, this Court has never made the comments attributed to it
which purports to

advise state officers they can prohibit federal law enforcement
officers or agents from

entering a Wyoming County. Those alleged quotations are utterly
false.

Any person who interferes with federal officers in performance of
their duties subjects

themselves to the risk of criminal prosecution.

William F. Downes

Chief Judge, District of Wyoming

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