It took 100 years, but Jim Wallahee’s illegal hunting conviction was finally reversed. The Washington Supreme Court ruled on May 16, 2024, that he had a treaty right to shoot that deer. (See story here and court decision here.) When Europeans began settling in North America, they exercised wha[...]
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May 16th, 2024 - 11:59 pm § in Law and Courts
Court throws out 100-year-old conviction of tribal hunter
Speak loudly and carry a small stick: The Logan Act and American foreign policy
By rights, the Logan Act should never have never made it onto the Internet chat circuit. Approved in 1799 by a sharply polarized Congress, the Act was seen, even at the time, as nothing more than a gesture to put an upstart state legislator (Dr. George Logan) in his place for schmoozing the French. [...]