Abstention Not The Answer In Long-Running Hunting Row, Tribe Tells 10th Circuit

(January 6, 2022, 8:44 AM EST) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should ignore Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials’ request to abstain from deciding whether to vacate a 27-year-old federal court judgment that the Crow Tribe of Indians’ off-reservation treaty hunting rights were extinguished upon Wyoming’s statehood because the officials “expressly waived” the argument below, the tribe says in a recent reply brief....