United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs unsuccessfully challenge defendant-Secretary of Commerce's decision to allocate a portion of the U.S. harvest of Pacific whiting to the Makah Indian Tribe.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/07/2004
• Decided 12/28/2004
• Published 12/28/2004

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PREGERSON, FERGUSON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Walsh, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert L. Gulley, Peter C. Monson, and James C. Kilbourne, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the federal defendants-appellees., Eileen M. Cooney, Elizabeth R. Mitchell, Office of General Counsel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington, of counsel for the federal defendants-appellees., Marc D. Slonim, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, Washington, for defendant-intervenor-appellee Makah Indian Tribe.