Court Seeks Views Of Government In Row Over Hunting In Bighorn Forest

Mealey's (January 9, 2018, 3:20 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court justices on Jan. 8 said they would like to hear what the U.S. government thinks about whether the Crow Tribe of Indians has a treaty-granted right to subsistence hunt in Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest, or whether a tribal member convicted of illegally killing an elk in Bighorn is barred from litigating the tribe’s hunting rights by a 1995 court ruling (Clayvin B. Herrera v. State of Wyoming, No. 17-532, U.S. Sup.)....