United States v. Michigan

OPINION

FOX, Senior District Judge.

On May 28,1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 623 F.2d 448, issued an Order which remanded this case to the district court to consider the meaning and effect of new federal regulations on this Indian treaty fishing dispute. Since this court’s opinion of May 7, 1979, 471 F.Supp. 192, the Secretary of the Interi- or had issued comprehensive regulations governing Indian fishing in the Great Lakes, including gill net fishing.1 The Indian tribes and the government argued before the Circuit Court that, even assuming that state law would…