(October 5, 2017, 8:31 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washington federal court properly exercised jurisdiction over racketeering and conspiracy claims leveled by five purportedly disenrolled members of the Nooksack Indian Tribe against 10 tribal officials because the officials’ unlawful actions strip them of the tribe’s sovereign immunity protection, the ousted members argue in a Sept. 25 response brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Margretty Rabang, et al. v. Robert Kelly, Jr., et al., No. 17-35427, 9th Cir.)....