UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MONT.

Nos. 78-2917, 78-2865.

604 F.2d 1162 (1979)

The UNITED STATES of America and the Crow Tribe of Indians, Montana, Appellants, v. The STATE OF MONTANA, Montana State Fish and Game Commission, Willis B. Jones, Arnold Rieder, Arthur C. Hagenston, Joseph H. Klabunde, W. Leslie Pengelly, and Wesley R. Woodgerd, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing September 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven E. Carroll, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice (argued), Washington, D. C., for the U. S.

Urban L. Roth, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Butte, Mont., for State of Mont.

Thomas K. Schoppert (argued), Lynaugh, Fitzgerald, Schoppert, Skaggs & Essman, Billings, Mont., for Crow Tribe of Indians.

Before SNEED and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and D. WILLIAMS, District Judge.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by the United States and the Crow Indian Tribe (appellants) from a final declaratory judgment entered by the district court (D. Mont.) in an action brought against the State of Montana seeking to determine title to the bed of the Big Horn River within the exterior boundaries of the Crow Indian Reservation and to resolve certain questions regarding the authority to regulate the hunting...

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