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U.S. v. WASHINGTON

No. 08-35794.

588 F.3d 1270 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. State of WASHINGTON; Swinomish Tribal Community; Lummi Nation; Upper Skagit Indian Nation; Upper Skagit Indian Gamble S'Klallam Tribe; Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe; Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation, Defendants-Appellees, v. Samish Indian Tribe, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 11, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee.

Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Jozwiak & McGaw, Seattle, WA; James M. Jannetta, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, La Conner, WA; Harold Chesnin, Office of the Tribal Attorney Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Sedro Woolley, WA; for defendant-appellee Treaty Tribes.

Daniel A. Raas & Mary M. Neil, Bellingham, WA, for defendant-appellee Lummi Nation.

Lauren Rasmussen, Seattle, WA, for defendant-appellee Port Gamble & Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Tribes.

Tom Zeilman & Tim Weaver, Yakima, WA, for defendant-appellee Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation.

Craig J. Dorsay, Dorsay & Easton, LLP, Portland, OR, for the movant-appellant.

Alexandra K. Smith, Lane Powell, PC, Seattle, WA, for the amicus curiae.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., STEPHEN REINHARDT, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

INTRODUCTION

This appeal presents one more chapter in the litigation over Indian treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest. The appellant Samish Tribe claims to be a successor to a tribe that entered the Treaty of Point Elliott, 12 Stat. 927 (1855), with the United States. In 1974, the Samish Tribe intervened in the foundational treaty rights case of United States v. Washington, 384 F.Supp. 312

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