Olympia, WA
Native peoples law Lawyer at Olympia, WA
Practice Areas: Native Peoples Law, Environmental and Natural Resources ... +2 more
OUTCOME: The State Supreme Court, in a 3-2-4 plurality decision, affirmed the Court of Appeals allowing the budget item to remain.
ORV groups challenged the constitutionality of a legislative budget item that used gas tax refund dollars to fund a portion of State Parks budget. The superior court and court of appeals upheld the bu ... dget item, and the State Supreme Court affirmed.
OUTCOME: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the State of Montana
SCOTUS case questioning what constitutes "navigability" for purposes of establishing a state's title to the beds of a river under the Equal Footing Doctrine.
OUTCOME: Supreme Court rules the State lacks criminal jurisdiction
Does the State have criminal jurisdiction under Public Law 280 over an Indian on a "Treaty Fishing Access Site" along the Columbia River?
OUTCOME: DNR's actions were upheld
Neighboring business sued DNR for issuing a proprietary permit authorizing placement of a hand-carried boat dock over state-owned aquatic lands.
OUTCOME: ongoing
Federal litigation regarding scope of treaty-protected Indian rights of fishing and harvesting shellfish.
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