Opinion
Nos. 79-4887, 80-3028, 80-3032, 80-3038, 80-3040, 80-3041, 80-3042, 80-3044, 80-3045, 80-3061, 80-3062 and 80-3063.
Argued and Submitted July 15, 1983.
Decided August 17, 1983.
Thomas Pacheco, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.
Jeanne S. Whiteing, John E. Echohawk, Boulder, Colo., Calvin Wilson, Busby, Mont., for Cheyenne Tribe.
R. Anthony Rogers, John Michael Facciola, Glenn P. Sugameli, Wilkinson, Cragun Barker, Washington, D.C., Thomas J. Lynaugh, Lynaugh, Fitzgerald, Schoppert Skaggs, Billings, Mont., for Crow Tribe and The Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes.
Reid Peyton Chambers, Sonosky, Chambers Sachse, Washington, D.C., for Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, intervenors.
Steven L. Bunch, Montana Legal Services Ass'n, Helena, Mont., for Bowen.
Helena S. Maclay, Deirdre Boggs, Bruce McEvoy, Missoula, Mont., Bert W. Kronmiller, James E. Seykora, Douglas Y. Freeman, Hardin, Mont., for State of Mont.
Cale Crowley, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Gallagher Toole, Maurice R. Colberg, Jr., Hibbs, Sweeney, Colberg, Jensen Koessler, Billings, Mont., for numerous defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana; James F. Battin and Paul G. Hatfield, District Judges, Presiding.
Before MERRILL, CHOY and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.
In Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Adsit, 668 F.2d 1080 (9th Cir. 1982), we reversed the judgment of the district court.
The Supreme Court in turn reversed our determination sub nom. Arizona v. San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona, ___ U.S. ___, 103 S.Ct. 3201, 77 L.Ed.2d 837 (1983).
The judgment of the district court, 484 F. Supp. 31, is AFFIRMED.