LAC du FLAMBEAU INDIANS v. STOP TREATY ABUSE-WIS., INC.

No. 91-C-117-C.

759 F.Supp. 1339 (1991)

LAC du FLAMBEAU BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS, Michael Allen, Wa-swa-gon Treaty Association, Thomas Maulson, Robert Martin, Nick Hockings, Gilbert Chapman, Plaintiffs, v. STOP TREATY ABUSE-WISCONSIN, INC., Dean Crist, Al Soik, Elaine Soik, Wayne Pieper, Tommy Handrick, Glen Handrick, Howard Caputo, Charles Ahlborn, Mike Ahlborn, Jack Lanta, Rose Lanta, Lois Pavlovich, Charles Gilman, Brian Crist, Patrick Long, David Worthen, James Williquette, David Enblom, Wayne Wirsing, and Unknown John Does and Jane Roes, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

March 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian L. Pierson and Irvin B. Charne, Charne, Clancy & Taitelman S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Lac du Flambeau Band, Michael Allen, Wa-swa-gon Treaty Ass'n, Thomas Maulson, Robert Martin, Nick Hockings and Gilbert Chapman.

Richard E. Sommer, Sommer, Olk & Schroder, Rhinelander, Wis., for Stop Treaty Abuse-Wisconsin, Inc., Dean Crist, Wayne Pieper, Tommy Handrick, Glen Handrick, Howard Caputo, Charles Ahlborn, Jack Lanta, Rose Lanta, Lois Pavlovich, Charles Gilman, Brian Crist, Patrick Long, David Worthen and Mike Ahlborn.

Ted Waskowski, Madison, Wis., for Al Soik and Elaine Soik.

Charles H. Bohl, Frisch Dudek, Ltd., Milwaukee, Wis., for James Williquette, David Enblom and Wayne Wirsing.


OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs are seeking a preliminary injunction against defendants to prevent them from interfering with plaintiffs' exercise of their treaty-guaranteed right to spear walleye. A hearing on the motion was held on March 7, 1991.

Plaintiffs contend that defendants Enblom, Wirsing and Williquette, the sheriffs of Ashland, Price and Vilas Counties, have conspired with the other defendants to deny plaintiffs their...

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