United States Ninth Circuit

Because the specific allocation in 1999 to the Makah Tribe was inconsistent with scientific principles set forth in the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), the National Marine Fisheries Service must either promulgate a new allocation based on the best available science or provide further justification for the current allocation that conforms to the requirements of the MSA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2002
• Decided 03/05/2002
• Published 03/05/2002

Judges

• Before:  THOMAS, GRABER and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Walsh,Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Hardy Myers, Attorney General;  Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General;  Jas. Jeffrey Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for plaintiff-appellant State of Oregon., David S. Vogel, Law Offices of David S. Vogel, P.L.L.C., Seattle, WA;  Richard Reich, Office of the Reservation Attorney, Quinault Indian Nation, Mercer Island, WA;  for amici curiae Quileute Tribe and Quinault Nation., Bill Tobin, Vashon, WA;  Alix Foster, Swinomish Tribal Community, LaConner, WA;  Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, WA;  for amici curiae Tulalip Tribes of Washington, Swinomish Tribal Community, and Nisqually Indian Tribe.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  Peter Monson, Sam Rauch, David C. Shilton, M. Alice Thurston, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC;  Marc D. Slonim, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, Washington;  for the defendants-appellees.