United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Boldt decision, which dealt with fishing rights of Washington state Indian tribes, the off-reservation catch of a non-treaty tribe attributed to the State should apply to the on-reservation catch of a tribe whose reservation was created not by treaty but by Executive Order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2000
• Published 12/13/2000

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, BEEZER, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Reich (argued), Office of the Reservation Attorney, Quinault Indian Nation, Tahola, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellees Quinault Tribe., Harold Chesnin (argued), Mathews Garlington-Mathews & Chesnin, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellees Chehalis Tribe., Jay D. Geck (argued) and Robert K. Costello, Washington State Attorney General's Office, Olympia, Washington, for the defendant-appellant.