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CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF COLVILLE v. STATE OF WASH.

Nos. 3868 and 3909.

446 F.Supp. 1339 (1978)

CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF the COLVILLE INDIAN RESERVATION, Lummi Indian Tribe and Makah Indian Tribe, Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Charles Hodde, Individually and as Director of the State of Washington Department of Revenue, Jack G. Nelson, Individually and as Director of the State of Washington Department of Motor Vehicles, and Robert S. O'Brien, Individually and as Washington State Treasurer, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Defendant, Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation, Intervenor-Plaintiff.

United States District Court, E. D. Washington.

February 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Pirtle, Ziontz, Pirtle, Morisset, Ernstoff & Chestnut, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs in No. 3868.

Slade Gorton, Atty. Gen. for the State of Washington, Matthew J. Coyle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., for defendants.

Dean C. Smith, U. S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for plaintiff in No. 3909.

James B. Hovis, Hovis, Cockrill & Roy, Yakima, Wash., for intervenor-plaintiff.

Before KILKENNY, Circuit Judge, and EAST and TURRENTINE, District Judges.

CONSOLIDATED DECISION

EAST, District Judge:

These causes, Nos. 3868 and 3909, were by stipulation of the parties consolidated for hearing and submitted to the Court on their respective merits following oral argument at Seattle, Washington on March 28, 1977.

CAUSE NO. 3868

PARTIES:

The plaintiffs are Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, Lummi Indian Tribe, and Makah Indian Tribe (Tribes).

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