United States of America, Tulalip Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. Lummi Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant

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• stating that “travel through an area and incidental trolling are not sufficient to establish an area as a usual and accustomed fishing ground”
• “Credibility of witnesses is a quintessentially factual determination which will not be disturbed in the absence of clear error.”
• Because of the fragmentary nature of treaty-time documentation, “the stringent standard of proof that operates in ordinary civil proceedings is relaxed.”
• no abuse of discretion where party offered no excuse for late identification of witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).