9th Circuit:  Northwestern Shoshone Band Maintained Hunting Rights In 1868 Treaty

(October 19, 2023, 9:10 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation maintained its hunting rights in an 1868 treaty it signed with the United States without the condition that the tribe maintain permanent residence on a reservation, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in reversing and remanding a trial court’s decision to dismiss the tribe’s case for declaratory judgment....