Nicholson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, on its  own behalf and as trustee on behalf of the Lummi Nation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v.

KEITH E. MILNER,

Defendant, No. 05-35802 and  D.C. No.

CV-01-00809-RBL

BRENT C. NICHOLSON; MARY K.

NICHOLSON,

Defendants-Appellants, v.

LUMMI NATION,

Plaintiff-intervener-Appellee. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, on its  own behalf and as trustee on behalf of the Lummi Nation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v.

KEITH E. MILNER,

Defendant-Appellant, SHIRLEY A. MILNER; MARY D. No. 05-36126

 SHARP; IAN C. BENNETT; MARCIA D.C. No.

A. BOYD, CV-01-00809-RBL

Defendants-Appellants,

OPINION

and

BRENT C. NICHOLSON; MARY K.

NICHOLSON,

Defendants, v.

LUMMI NATION,

Plaintiff-intervener.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge, Presiding

Argued March 13, 2008 Submitted October 9, 2009 Seattle, Washington

Filed October 9, 2009 UNITED STATES v.…