United States Ninth Circuit

Indian tribes showed a basis for believing that a railroad's right-of-way threatened harm to tribal lands, and the tribes are entitled to further discovery on the issue of harm in the railroad's challenge to the tribe's imposition of an ad valorem tax.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/17/2003
• Published 03/17/2003

Judges

• Before BEEZER, GOULD, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Reid Peyton Chambers,Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants., Neil G. Westesen, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, P.L.L.P., and Charles G. Cole, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellee.