The State, through Slade Gorton ("Friend of the Indian, have a fish stick, Hallelujah!"), tried to challenge the Boldt decision on pretty much every possible front.

They got spanked, hard, on every count.

When you go before a federal judge and ask him to judge another federal judge as biased or senile, and he has literally years of dozens of other federal judges who affirmed the decisions in their entirety on the one hand and a state that acted in a blatantly racist manner for years, in addition to continually violating federal orders to clean up their act, you will continue to get spanked, harder and harder.

The reason why other states or tribes may have different rights than the Indians around here is that they all signed different treaties. The Stevens Treaties (Medecine Creek, etc.) all have the "in common with" verbiage, the fundamental basis of the 50/50 split.

Fish on...

Todd