Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Washington v. United States
444 U.S. 816
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1979-10-01
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "State-law prohibition against compliance with the District Court's decree cannot survive the command of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution."
- "[A] court possessed of the res in a proceeding in rem ... may enjoin those who would interfere with that custody.''
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- 45 opinions
443 U. S. 658. Upon consideration of the motion of the State of Washington for modification of the opinion of this Court, the memorandum filed by the respondent tribes, the memorandum filed by the United States and the reply thereto, it is ordered that footnote 16 of the opinion be modified as follows:
"A factual dispute exists on the question of what percentage of the fish in the case area actually passes through Indian fishing areas and is therefore subject to the District Court’s allocations. In the absence of any*817 relevant findings by the courts below, we are unable to express any view on the matter.”