September 10, 2021
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe has asked a Washington federal judge to let it file a new brief showing that the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe continues to violate an order limiting its fishing area, saying Sauk wrongly authorized members to fish in the Skagit River last fall.
August 06, 2021
A Washington federal court on Friday ruled in the Lummi Nation's favor in a suit revisiting a longtime fishing rights dispute, cementing a Ninth Circuit decision that found the Native American tribe isn't encroaching on waters in other tribes' homelands.
October 20, 2020
A Native American tribe said the details of its fishing activities are too complicated for a Washington federal judge to decide at this stage of litigation with another tribe on whether fishing is happening in the wrong area.
October 05, 2020
A Washington federal judge shot down a Native American tribe's efforts to immediately close another tribe's allegedly illegal fishing area in a section of the Skagit River, finding that it hasn't shown how it will be irreparably harmed by its rival's new fishery.
July 06, 2020
Three Pacific Northwest tribes on Friday continued their effort to keep the Lummi Nation of Washington out of their fishing waters, with the Tulalip Tribes claiming "substantial misrepresentations" as the Lummi fights to begin winter crab fishing north of Seattle.
June 02, 2020
Three Native American tribes have asked a Washington federal judge to stop the Lummi Nation from acting on its plans to begin winter crab fishing in their essential fishing territories north of Seattle in violation of a federal fishing plan, saying that the tribe has only recently decided to fish there after staying away for 45 years.
April 22, 2020
A Washington federal court has blocked Gold Coast Oyster LLC from harvesting shellfish from any tidelands in the Hood Canal west of Seattle until it stops violating a fishing plan meant to resolve a yearslong dispute with the Skokomish Indian Tribe and other tribes.
November 14, 2019
A Washington federal judge on Wednesday halted the Lummi Nation's plans to take part in winter crab fishing in an area off the state's coast, saying three other tribes that have long fished those waters had shown that letting the Lummi join in could hurt them economically and culturally.
November 05, 2019
Three Washington tribes have urged a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to block another tribe, the Lummi Nation, from opening a crab fishery in Puget Sound waters, seeking to lessen the Lummi's impact on the tribal harvest's "zero sum game."
October 18, 2019
Three tribal groups have asked a Washington federal judge to ban a competing tribe from opening a crab fishery in Puget Sound waters where it hasn't been permitted to fish in 45 years, saying the tribe's proposed operation threatens to upset the state's crab harvest quotas.