Legal Opinion
People v. McCovey
California Supreme Court
Decided July 26, 1984No. Crim. 23387PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BIRD, C. J.
Is the state preempted from regulating the off-reservation sale or possession for sale of fish caught by Hoopa Valley Reservation Indians on the reservation?
I
Appellant, Walter McCovey, Jr., is a Yurok Indian of the Hoopa Valley Reservation located in northern California. This reservation includes a one-mile strip of land on each side of the Klamath River from the river’s mouth at the Pacific Ocean to its confluence with the Trinity River. At that point, the reservation widens to a 12-mile square. (See post, at pp. 523-524.)
Sometime in September 1980, appellant McCovey caught…
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