9th Circuit Agrees Issue Preclusion Blocks Tribe’s Bid For Hunting Rights Ruling

(August 13, 2021, 11:26 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 6 affirmed that issue preclusion bars a Washington Indian tribe from seeking a declaration that it is a signatory to an 1855 treaty and that its members still have the treaty-given right to hunt throughout the state because its treaty rights were already determined in prior litigation....