United States Ninth Circuit

Congress did not expressly authorize plenary state land use regulation over Indian fee lands when it made those lands freely encumberable, and exceptional circumstances did not exist to justify a county's land use jurisdiction over a building project.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2002
• Decided 09/18/2002
• Published 09/18/2002

Judges

• Before BRUNETTI, TROTT and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Todd S. Kim, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc D. Slonim,Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., A. Reid Allison III, Tulalip Tribes of Washington, Office of Reservation Attorney, Tulalip, Washington, for the plaintiff-intervenor-appellee., Thomas M. Fitzpatrick, Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Everett, Washington, for the defendants-appellants., Steven J. Bladek, Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Everett, Washington, for the defendants-appellants.