District Court, W.D. Washington, 2019

United States v. State of Washington

United States v. State of Washington
District Court, W.D. Washington · Decided December 3, 2019
United States v. State of Washington

Trial Court Opinion

1 HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., NO. C70-9213 Subproceeding No. 19-1 10 Plaintiffs, STIPULATION AND ORDER GRANTING 11 v. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION REGARDING LUMMI FISHING IN STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al., REGION 2 EAST 13 Defendants.

14 The undersigned parties stipulate to entry of the following order.

15 Dated: December 3, 2019 THE SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL MORISSET SCHLOSSER JOZWIAK & COMMUNITY SOMERVILLE By: s/ Emily Haley By: s/ Mason D. Morisset James M. Jannetta, WSBA #36525 Mason D. Morisset, WSBA #00273 Emily Haley, WSBA # 38284 218 Colman Building Office of Tribal Attorney 811 First Avenue 11404 Moorage Way Seattle, Washington 98104 20 La Conner, Washington 98257 Tel: (206) 386-5200 Tel: (360) 466-1134 Email: [email protected] 21 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Attorneys for the Tulalip Tribes Attorneys for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community STIPULATION AND ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY LAW OFFICES UPPER SKAGIT INDIAN TRIBE LUMMI NATION By: s/ David S. Hawkins Gabriel Cantu, WSBA #52733 David S. Hawkins, WSBA #35370 Cynthia Cartwright, WSBA #55756 3 General Counsel 2665 Kwina Road 25944 Community Plaza Way Bellingham, WA 98266 4 Sedro-Woolley, Washington 98284 Telephone: (360) 312-2162 Tel: (360) 854-7016 Facsimile: (360) 380-3962 5 Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] HARRIGAN LEYH FARMER & THOMSEN LLP By: s/ James M. Schurz James M. Schurz, pro hac vice By: s/ Kristin E. Ballinger Elizabeth Balassone, pro hac vice Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr., WSBA #1751 Morrison Foerster 8 Tyler L. Farmer, WSBA #39912 415 Market Street Kristin E. Ballinger, WSBA #28253 San Francisco, CA 9 999 Third Avenue, Suite 4400 Telephone: (415) 268-7000 Seattle, Washington 98104 Facsimile: (415) 268-7522 10 Tel: (206) 623-1700 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 11 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Lummi Nation Attorneys for Upper Skagit Indian Tribe 14 ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 15 For the reasons stated in the Order Granting Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt. # 37), the Court ORDERS: 17 Lummi Nation is hereby ENJOINED from issuing any regulations, opening or participating in any fishery, or otherwise authorizing fishing for any species in Region 2 East. Lummi Nation shall provide notice of this Order by a recording for the Fishing Regulation Hotline and shall take fisheries enforcement action against individual members of Lummi Nation who fail to comply with this Order. This injunction shall continue until otherwise ordered by the Court.

Lummi shall answer the Request for Determination as required by Paragraph 25 no later than December 20, 2019. The parties shall file a proposed case schedule no later than December 20, 2019. All other due dates required by Paragraph 25 of the Permanent Injunction as modified in 1993 (see United States v. Washington, 18 F. Supp. 3d 1213 (W.D. Wash. 1993)), the Federal STIPULATION AND ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY LAW OFFICES Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Local Rules for the Western District of Washington are stayed until further order of the Court.

3 DATED this 3 day of December 2019.

5 A RICARDO S. MARTINEZ 7 CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

STIPULATION AND ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY LAW OFFICES

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