March 20, 2018
The Quileute tribe and the Quinault Nation on Monday asked a Washington federal judge to revisit his order and establish a more generous western boundary for the tribes' fishing territory, requesting a tweak to a decision in a long-running fishing rights dispute stemming from a treaty signed in 1855.
January 22, 2018
The Ninth Circuit said Friday it won't revisit a panel decision backing a lower court's finding that the federal government gave the Quileute Indian Tribe and Quinault Indian Nation the right to hunt whales and seals when it granted both the "right of taking fish" in a treaty signed in 1855.
December 15, 2017
The Quileute Indian Tribe and Quinault Indian Nation told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that it shouldn't rethink a panel decision backing a lower court's finding that the federal government gave them the right to hunt whales and seals when it granted both the "right of taking fish" in a treaty signed in 1855.
October 23, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Monday cited a "Seinfeld" episode in affirming a lower court's finding that the U.S. awarded the Quileute Tribe and Quinault Indian Nation the right to hunt whales and seals when they granted both the "right of taking fish" in a treaty signed in 1855.
October 12, 2016
The Quileute Indian Tribe and the Quinault Indian Nation have pressed the Ninth Circuit to cement a district court's holdings regarding the scope of their fishing grounds off Washington's coast, in the face of attempts by the state and a rival tribe to overturn them.
July 07, 2016
The Makah Indian tribe on Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a district court's holdings that expanded the scope of the Quinault Indian Nation and the Quileute Indian tribe's fishing grounds off Washington's coast.
February 01, 2016
The state of Washington on Friday asked the Ninth Circuit to allow interested parties in a sprawling litigation with multiple subproceedings over various tribes' fishing rights to participate in an appeal without formally intervening, saying the appellate court should extend a district court's reliance upon the practice.
January 26, 2016
Two Washington tribes on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to create a new category for interested parties in a sprawling litigation with multiple subproceedings over various tribes' fishing rights, saying it would let certain parties file briefs without formally intervening.