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SHERMOEN v. U.S.

No. 91-16045.

982 F.2d 1312 (1992)

Lillian McCovey SHERMOEN; Carol Leigh McConnell Ammon; Leslie Ammon; Elsie McCovey Bacon; Gaylon Robert Bacon; Joseph K. Bacon; Raymond E. Bacon; George Clifford Bailey, Sr.; Ethel Mae Blake; Clarann C. (Ragain) Bray; Mary L. Carroll; Ora Collins; Dennis Costa; Joanne Barbara Wilder Costa; Barney Alva Curtice; Frank Benjamin Dowd; Gerald Ieshh Dowd; Kathy Noreen Dowd; Rocky Twa-Gah Dowd; Venola Dowd; Ollie Roberts Sorrell Foseide; Eileen Renee (Ragain) George; Frank Gist; Bonita Bacon Green; Janice Marie Greene; Earl Griffith; Colleen Guido; Dorothy Harriet Williams Haberman; Richard Lee Haberman; Mary Louise Hall; Evalina Hoffman; Linda Lee Hoffman; Virginia Howerton; Martin Kinder; Rachel Louise Knight; Pauline Rogers Kothman; Axel Roderick Lindgren; Marilyn Kay Lunsford; Ardith Evelyn McConnell; Howard Duane McConnell; Michael McConnell; Robert Brian McConnell; Allen McCovey, Sr.; Beatrice Violet McCovey; Darrell McCovey; Frank Lynn McCovey; James L. McCovey; Loren Gerhad McCovey; Vada Norma John McCovey; Vlayn Dene Harvill McCovey; David Edgar McLaughlin; Thelma Wilma McLaughlin; Gertrude Viola Mollier; Carol Griffith Moon; Edward Michael Moore; Lena Isle Nicholson; David O'Neill; Ellen J. O'Neill; Herbert Lincoln O'Neill; Barbara D. Orcutt; Lawrence E. Orcutt; Bernice Jean Roubidoux; Darlene Marie Roubidoux; Peggy Joyce Sanderson; John Denton Simpson, II; Vivian Kay Simpson; Alberta Sylvia; Maria Eileen Tripp; Georgiana Trull; Lena Cleveland Wilder; and The Coast Indian Community of Yurok Indians of the Resighini Rancheria, a federally recognized tribe, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America; The United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Manuel Lujan, Secretary of the Interior; Eddie Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Interior/Indian Affairs; Ronald M. Jaeger, Area Director, Sacramento Area Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs; and Karole Overberg, Superintendent, Northern California Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Defendants-Appellees, Dale Risling, Sr.; Robert D. Hostler; Clifford Lyle Marshall; and John M. Scott, Intervenor Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 24, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Thierolf, Jr., Jacobson, Jewett & Thierolf, Medford, OR, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Barry M. Hartman and Michael J. Malmquist, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees.

Thomas P. Schlosser and Frank R. Jozwiak, Pirtle, Morisset, Schlosser & Ayer, Seattle, WA, for intervenor defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, POOLE and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.

POOLE, Circuit Judge:

I.

Seventy individual Native Americans and the Coast Indian Community of Yurok Indians of the Resighini Rancheria, appellants, seek review of the district court's dismissal of their suit seeking injunctive relief and a declaration that the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act violates their constitutional rights. They also appeal the denial of their motion to amend their complaint. We affirm.

II.

On October 31, 1988, Congress...

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