U.S. v. STATE OF WASHINGTON

No. C70-9213.

143 F.Supp.2d 1218 (2001)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington, at Seattle.

April 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Kirk Costello, Attorney General's Office, Fish & Wildlife, Olympia, WA, for defendants.

Barbara J. Gazeley, Attorney General's Office, Department of Justice, Salem, OR, Eric J. Bloch, Attorney General's Office, Department of Justice, Portland, OR, for State of Oregon.

Richard Mayer Berley, Mark Slonim, John B. Arum, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, WA, for Makah Indian Tribe.

Harry L. Johnsen, III, Daniel Alan Raas, Brian Kenneth Valentine, Raas, Johnsen & Stuen, PS, Bellingham, WA, for Lummi Nation.

Ruth A. Kennedy, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Seattle, WA, Leslie G. Barnhart, Katherine K. Krueger, Quileute Natural Resources, Lapush, WA, for Quileute Tribe.

Kathryn J. Nelson, Tracey A. Thompson, Clemencia Castro-Woolery, Eisenhower & Carlson, Tacoma, WA, Phillip Evan Katzen, Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Allen H. Sanders, Seattle, WA, for Skokomish Indian Tribe, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.

John Curtright Sledd, Suquamish Tribe, Suquamish, WA, Phillip Evan Katzen, Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Allen H. Sanders, Seattle, WA, for Suquamish Indian Tribe.

Bill Tobin, Vashon, WA, Phillip Evan Katzen, Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Allen H. Sanders, Seattle, WA, for Nisqually Indian Tribe.

Eileen Marie Cooney, US Department of Justice, Seattle, WA, William Anthony White, US Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Washington, DC, Peter C. Monson, US Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Denver CO, Samuel D. Rauch, III, US Department of Justice, ENRD, Wildlife & Marine, Washington, DC, Vernon Peterson, US Department of Interior, Office of Regional Solicitor, Portland, OR, for USA.

Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, WA, for Tulalip Tribes of WA.

Phillip Evan Katzen, Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Allen H. Sanders, Seattle, WA, for Nooksak Indian Tribe, Stillaguamish Tribe, Upper Skagit Tribe, Sauk-Suiattle Tribe.

Kevin R. Lyon, Lyon Corporation, PS, Olympia, WA, Ronald John Whitener, Northwest Justice Project, Seattle, WA, Kelly S. Croman, Squaxin Island Legal Dept., Olympia, WA, Phillip Evan Katzen, Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Allen H. Sanders, Seattle, WA, for Squaxin Island Tribe.

John Howard Bell, Annette Klapstein, Debra S. O'Gara, Law Office of the Puyallup Indian Tribe, Tacoma, WA, for Puyallup Tribe.

Nettie Louise Alvarez, Richard S. Ralston, Ralston & Alvarez, Seattle, WA, for Hoh Indian Tribe.

Richard Reich, Office of Reservation Attorney, Taholah, WA, for Quinault Indian Nation.

Alix Foster, Allan E. Olson, Office of the Tribal Attorney, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, LaConner, WA, for Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.


ORDER ON SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTIONS

ROTHSTEIN, District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the court on motions by the Makah Tribe (hereinafter "Makah"), the United States Secretary of Commerce (hereinafter the "Secretary"), and the State of Oregon (hereinafter "Oregon"), each seeking summary judgment on the methodology to be used in allocating the United States' share of Pacific whiting fish between Indian and...

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