United States Ninth Circuit

An Indian tribe member's prior federal suit, analyzing a state's heavy vehicle tax and the 1855 Yakama Treaty, is not binding in a suit dealing with a similar federal tax. No express language in the treaty exempts a tribe member from heavy vehicle and diesel fuel taxes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2002
• Decided 09/11/2002
• Published 09/11/2002

Judges

• Before BRUNETTI, TROTT, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David English Carmack,Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellant., A. Wray Muoio, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellant., Kent L. Jones,Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellant., Timothy Weaver, Weaver Law Office, Yakima, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellees.