United States Ninth Circuit

In an Indian tribe's appeal from the district court's denial of the tribe's Rule 60(b) motion to reopen the judgment in a matter in which the tribe had been denied fishing rights under the Treaty of Point Elliott, the order is affirmed where recognition proceedings and the fact of the tribe's recognition had no effect on the establishment of treaty rights at issue in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/11/2009
• Published 12/11/2009

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., STEPHEN REINHARDT, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig J. Dorsay, Dorsay & Easton, LLP, Portland, OR, for the movant-appellant., Alexandra K. Smith, Lane Powell, PC, Seattle, WA, for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee., Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Jozwiak & McGaw, Seattle, WA;  James M. Jannetta, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, La Conner, WA;  Harold Chesnin, Office of the Tribal Attorney Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Sedro Woolley, WA;  for defendant-appellee Treaty Tribes., Daniel A. Raas & Mary M. Neil, Bellingham, WA, for defendant-appellee Lummi Nation., Lauren Rasmussen, Seattle, WA, for defendant-appellee Port Gamble & Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Tribes., Tom Zeilman & Tim Weaver, Yakima, WA, for defendant-appellee Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation.