Supreme Court of the United States

Clayvin Herrera, Petitioner v. Wyoming

May 20, 2019139 S. Ct. 1686

Summary

The Court vacated and remanded, ruling that the Crow Tribe's 1868 Treaty hunting right survived Wyoming statehood. The Court found Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians repudiated Ward v. Race Horse and issue preclusion from Crow Tribe of Indians v. Repsis did not bar Herrera due to the intervening change in law. The Court further held Bighorn National Forest was not categorically occupied under the treaty.