A Federal District court judge in Seattle has ruled in favor of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in a case involving a diking and drainage district's failure to comply with the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act when replacing tidegates in its jurisdiction.
After hearing testimony from tribal elders, biologists, historians, treaty experts, as well as testimony from private property owners and non-Indian commercial shellfish growers, Federal District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie followed…
The Everett Herald: Leaders of 21 American Indian tribes agreed Friday, at the request of a federal District Court judge, to return to mediation on a lawsuit against the state…
The Everett Herald covered a hearing yesterday in the culvert case: A federal district court judge in Seattle gave 21 American Indian tribes one week to reconsider a lawsuit that…