Legal Opinion
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Wisconsin
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided August 21, 1987No. 74-C-313-CPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRABB, Chief Judge.
This lawsuit, concerning the scope and extent of the plaintiff tribes’ usufructuary rights in the territory ceded by the Chippewa treaties of 1837 and 1842, is now in the “regulatory phase” of the litigation. Prefatory to the regulatory phase trial scheduled for the spring of 1988,1 have requested the parties to brief the issue of what legal standards this court should apply in determining the permissible bounds of state regulation of the tribes’ off-reservation rights.
Five broad issues have emerged from the briefs: 1) the appropriate legal standard to apply to state…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Antoine v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Puyallup Tribe v. Department of Game of Wash.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Department of Game of Wash. v. Puyallup TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Sohappy v. SmithDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1969
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. MinnesotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
- State v. Big JohnWisconsin Supreme Court · 1988
- Bowen v. DoyleDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1995
- Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. MinnesotaDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1994
- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. WisconsinDistrict Court, W.D. Wisconsin · 1990
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