United States Ninth Circuit

A Congressional ratification and confirmation of tribal constitution is a "statutory delegation" under the Hoopa-Yoruk Settlement Act, 25 USC 1300i-1300i-11.

Appellate Information

• Argued Array
• Decided 09/11/2001
• Published 09/11/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and HUG, FERNANDEZ, T.G. NELSON, KLEINFELD, SILVERMAN, GRABER, McKEOWN, WARDLAW, PAEZ, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Burling,Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiff-appellant., Anne R. Traum, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.;   and Michael D. Beach, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas P. Schlosser and K. Allison McGaw, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, Washington, for the defendants-appellees.