[1] The suit claimed that the government had violated the Clean Water Act and that the construction was destructive to local wetlands, potentially harming the coho salmon population.
[1][7] For several years in the late 1990s, Arum represented the Makah tribe in their fight to conduct legal whale hunts.
[1] In 1995, Arum came under scrutiny after admitting to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the Makah tribe had planned to sell whale meet and engage in commercial hunts.
[11][1][12] He was an assistant attorney on the 1999 Supreme Court case Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, which resulted in the Ojibwe people being granted treaty rights to fishing and hunting.
[1][16] Before his death, Arum had asked Muhammad Ali to intervene on behalf of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, two hikers who were arrested in Iran and held on espionage charges.