UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MICH.

Nos. 79-1414, 79-1527 and 79-1528.

623 F.2d 448 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Bay Mills Indian Community, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, v. STATE OF MICHIGAN, Michigan Natural Resources Commission and its agents, Dr. Howard A. Tanner, Director of the Department of Natural Resources; Dr. Henry Vondett, Chief, Fisheries Division, Department of Natural Resources; and George Dahl, Chief, Law Enforcement Division, Department of Natural Resources, (No. 79-1414), Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Bay Mills Indian Community, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees, v. STATE OF MICHIGAN, Michigan Natural Resources Commission and its agents Dr. Howard A. Tanner, John A. Scott and Frank P. Opolka, Defendants, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Michigan, Intervenor-Appellant, Grand Traverse Area Sport Fishing Association, (Nos. 79-1527 & 79-1528), Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Robert A. Derengoski, Sol. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants-appellants in No. 79-1414.

Bruce R. Greene, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., William James, U. P. Legal Services, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., for Bay Mills.

Daniel T. Green, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., for Chippewa.

Theodore W. Swift, William K. Fahey, Stephen O. Schultz, Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, Lansing, Mich., for intervenor-appellant in No. 79-1527.

James A. Brady, U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., James W. Moorman, Robert L. Klarquist, Edward J. Shawaker, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., for United States.

Richard B. Baxter, Hillman, Baxter & Hammond, Grand Rapids, Mich., for intervenor-appellant in No. 79-1528.

Before MERRITT and BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

On May 7, 1979, District Judge Noel Fox issued an opinion and a declaratory judgment, United States v. Michigan, 471 F.Supp. 192 (W.D.Mich.1979), in an action brought by the United States and two Indian tribes in Michigan, the Chippewa and the Ottawa tribes (represented by the Bay Mills Indian Community and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) against the State of Michigan and certain state officials...

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