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MATTZ v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S002805.

46 Cal.3d 355 (1988)

758 P.2d 606

250 Cal. Rptr. 278

DIANE SUE MATTZ et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF DEL NORTE COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Forman and Dohn Henion, under appointments by the Supreme Court, Alexander & Karshmer, William Follett, Schafer, Cochran & Follett, Michael S. Pfeffer, Stephen V. Quesenberry and Steven Hirsh for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Ronald D. Smetana, Charles W. Getz IV, Bruce S. Flushman and Mary E. Hacenbracht, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

ARGUELLES, J.

In 1981, the People filed criminal charges against Diane Sue Mattz, Antone Folkins and Kenneth Mattz (hereafter defendants) — three Yurok Indians of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California — arising out of defendants' alleged commercial fishing activities in the Klamath River on the reservation.1 Before trial, defendants challenged the state's authority...

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