United States v. Williams

ELR Citation: ELR 20585
No(s). 88-3289 (9th Cir. Mar 13, 1990)

The court holds that while a state can apply its conservation laws to Indians who have acquired treaty rights to hunt and fish only if the state's laws are necessary for conservation, a state's laws may be presumed necessary for conservation if an Indian tribe has enacted wildlife laws similar to st...