In an Indian tribe's appeal from the district court's denial of the tribe's Rule 60(b) motion to reopen the judgment in a matter in which the tribe had been denied fishing rights under the Treaty of Point Elliott, the order is affirmed where recognition proceedings and the fact of the tribe's recognition had no effect on the establishment of treaty rights at issue in this case.
Read US v. Washington, No. 08-35794
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted June 2, 2009
Filed December 11, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Canby
Counsel
For Appellant:
Mason D. Morisset, Morisset, Schlosser, Jozwiak & McGaw, Seattle, WA
James M. Jannetta, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, La Conner, Wa
For Appellee:
Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC
