MOORE v. NELSON

No. 00-15754.

270 F.3d 789 (2001)

Edward Michael MOORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Byron NELSON, Jr., Chief Judge of the Hoopa Valley Tribal Court; Leonard Masten, Chief of Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Clanton, J. Bryce Kenny, Arcata, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

K. Allison McGaw, Seattle, Washington, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Michael Daly Hawkins and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted July 12, 2001 — San Francisco, California.

OPINION

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Edward Michael Moore, a member of the Yurok Indian Tribe, filed a petition for habeas corpus in the federal district court to challenge a judgment of the Hoopa Valley Tribal Court ordering Moore to pay a penalty of $18,508.50 for cutting timber on the Hoopa Valley Reservation without a permit. The petition was filed pursuant to a provision of the...

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