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Sohappy v. Smith

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Date decided
  
July 8, 1969

Judge sitting
  
Robert C. Belloni

End date
  
July 8, 1969

Sohappy v. Smith

Full case name
  
Richard SOHAPPY et al., Plaintiffs, v. McKee A. SMITH, Edward G. Huffschmidt, J. I. Eoff, Commissioners, Oregon Fish Commission; Robert W. Schoning, Director, Oregon Fish Commission, their agents, servants, employees and those persons in active concert or participation with them; John W. McKean, Director, Oregon Game Commission, his agents, servants, employees and those persons in active concert or participation with him, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF OREGON, Defendant, and The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, Intervenors.

Ruling court
  
United States District Court for the District of Oregon

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Sohappy v. Smith, 302 F.Supp. 899 (D.Or. 1969), along with the combined United States v. Oregon, was a federal case heard by the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, decided in 1969 and amended in 1975. It acknowledged the right of several tribes of Native Americans to fish in the Columbia River with minimal regulation by the government of the United States or local governments.

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