United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal by the Tulalip Tribes from an order of the district court denying them the right to intervene in an action brought by the Snohomish Tribe of Indians to achieve federal recognition of the Snohomish Tribe, the order is affirmed where the recognition of the Snohomish Tribe, if it occurred, would have no effect on its own treaty rights or the treaty rights of the Tulalip Tribes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2009
• Decided 05/13/2010
• Published 05/13/2010

Judges

• Before WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., DAVID R. THOMPSON, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James H. Jones, Jr., Bell & Ingram, P.S., Everett, WA, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant Tulalip Tribes.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alexandra K. Smith, John S. Devlin, III, Lane Powell, PC, Seattle, WA, for plaintiffs-appellees Evans.