NEAH BAY — The Makah tribe will likely seek another full-panel review of an appeals court decision that blocks the tribe’s right to hunt gray whales, its attorney said Tuesday.
Responding to the decision on whaling handed down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week, Seattle attorney John Arum said the fight to maintain the Makah’s treaty right to hunt whales is continuing.
“The issue is still alive and the tribe is moving forward to get its views before the court,” he said. “It’s not the end.”
The appeals court in San Francisco last Wednesday released an amended opinion on a lawsuit regarding gray whale hunts and declined the petitions of the Makah, the U.S. government and other parties to conduct a review of the suit by the full panel of judges.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
