(April 21, 2022, 3:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a Washington Indian tribe’s pursuit of a declaratory judgment on its off-reservation hunting and gathering rights is barred by issue preclusion based on previous litigation should be overturned because an en banc decision in the prior litigation presents an “elegant solution” to the dispute, several law professors tell the U.S. Supreme Court in an April 7 amicus curiae brief....