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Cherokee Nation attorney general says Supreme Court decline keeps hunting, fishing case in federal court
Summary
At the March 26 Rules Committee meeting Attorney General Chad Harshaw told council members the U.S. Supreme Court declined an original action filed by Oklahoma’s governor, leaving the tribe’s treaty-reserved hunting and fishing litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Harshaw called the development 'a big win for us.'
Attorney General Chad Harshaw told the Cherokee Nation Rules Committee on March 26 that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up an original action filed by Oklahoma’s governor challenging an attorney-general opinion about tribal hunting and fishing rights.
"We filed our case in the Northern District Of Oklahoma, asserting our treaty reserved hunting and fishing rights," Harshaw said, summarizing…
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