MANDATE ISSUED.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Roberts, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Kennedy, J., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, J., joined.

Argued. For petitioner: David S. Hawkins, Sedro-Woolley, Wash.; and Ann O’Connell, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondents: Eric D. Miller, Seattle, Wash.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.

Reply of petitioner Upper Skagit Indian Tribe filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Seneca County, New York filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Village of Union Springs, Town of Springport, Cayuga County filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Public Service Company of New Mexico filed. (Distributed)

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Record requested from the Supreme Court of Washington.

Brief of respondents Sharline Lundgren and Ray Lundgren filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED

Brief amici curiae of Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and Skokomish Indian Tribe filed.

Brief amici curiae of Cayuga Nation, Seneca Nation of Indians, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Cherokee Nation, Pueblo of Pojoaque filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.)

Brief of petitioner Upper Skagit Indian Tribe filed.

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/8/2017.

Rescheduled.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2017.

Reply of petitioner Upper Skagit Indian Tribe filed.

Brief of respondents Sharline Lundgren and Ray Lundgren in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 13, 2017)

Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Petitioner, represented by Arthur W. Harrigan Jr.

Sharline Lundgren and Ray Lundgren, Respondent, represented by Scott Martin Ellerby

Cayuga Nation, Seneca Nation of Indians, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Cherokee Nation, Pueblo of Pojoaque, Amicus Curiae, represented by Ian Heath Gershengorn

Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and Skokomish Indian Tribe, Amicus Curiae, represented by Douglas B.L. Endreson

National Congress of American Indians, Amicus Curiae, represented by Colette Routel

Public Service Company of New Mexico, Amicus Curiae, represented by William Henry Hurd

Seneca County, New York, Amicus Curiae, represented by Brian Laudadio

States of Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico, and Texas, Amicus Curiae, represented by David Leigh Franklin

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Noel J. Francisco

Village of Union Springs, Town of Springport, Cayuga County, Amicus Curiae, represented by David Henry Tennant