Lawyers for the state of New York claim the new developments that leaders from the Seneca Nation of Indians have presented to a federal judge in the case regarding their gaming compact do not merit holding up an order demanding the tribal nation pay a $470 million judgment to the state.

Last month, tribal officials provided U.S. District Judge William Skretny with a letter that Assistant Interior Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland sent to E. Sequoyah Simermeyer, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, asking for the federal regulatory body to determine whether the payment would violate the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.