(September 7, 2017, 8:56 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals finding that more than 800 fish-blocking road culverts in Washington state are violating Native Americans’ fishing rights is an improper expansion of treaty rights that the U.S. Supreme Court needs to rectify, the state argues in an Aug. 17 petition for writ of certiorari (State of Washington v. United States of America, et al., No. 17-269, U.S. Sup.; 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2937)....