Legal Opinion
United States v. Washington
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided September 26, 1980No. Civ. No. 9213—Phase IIPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORRICK, District Judge.
This opinion constitutes but the most recent link in a long chain of opinions construing the following 27 words:
“The right of taking fish, at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations, is further secured to said Indians, in common with all citizens of the Territory, * * *.”1
The quoted clause appears in six treaties negotiated between the United States and several Pacific Northwest Indian tribes in 1854 and 1855.2 The Indians traded their interest in the land west of the Cascade *190Mountains and north of the Columbia River for the exclusive use of small land…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. VolpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- National League of Cities v. UserySupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Kaiser Aetna v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Hughes v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by19 opinions
- United States v. WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. State Of WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. WashingtonDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1985
- United States v. State of WashingtonDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1985
- No Oilport! v. CarterDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1981
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