Roberts v. Hagener

MEMORANDUM ***

Randy Roberts appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the State of Montana and numerous Montana government officials (collectively “Defendants” or “Montana”) in his suit alleging that a Montana big game hunting regulation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm.

Both the United States Supreme Court and this court have long held that classifications based on membership in a federally *587recognized Indian tribe are political, rather than racial, and thus subject to…