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RUSS v. WILKINS

No. C-73-2279-CBR.

410 F.Supp. 579 (1976)

Joseph A. RUSS and James Whipple, Plaintiffs, and Covelo Indian Community of the Round Valley Indian Reservation, By and Through its Community Council, a recognized Indian tribal community, Plaintiff in Intervention, v. Richard E. WILKINS, as Fish and Game Warden, California Department of Fish and Game, and G. Raymond Arnett, as Director, California Department of Fish and Game, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. King, Jr., Art Bunce, California Indian Legal Services, Escondido, Cal., for plaintiffs and plaintiff in intervention.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., Carl Boronkay, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roderick E. Walston, Charles W. Getz, IV, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

RENFREW, District Judge.

This case raises the questions of the exact boundary of the Round Valley Indian Reservation (Reservation) in Mendocino County, California, and whether the State of California has jurisdiction to regulate hunting upon that Reservation.

On April 15, 1973, plaintiffs Russ and Whipple, two enrolled members of the Covelo Indian Community of the Reservation, shot a deer on land they claim is part of the Reservation...

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