TLINGIT AND HAIDA INDIANS OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES

No. 47900.

389 F.2d 778 (1968)

The TLINGIT AND HAIDA INDIANS OF ALASKA and Harry Douglas et al., Intervenors, v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. S. Weissbrodt, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for plaintiffs. Abe W. Weissbrodt and Ruth W. Duhl, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., for defendant.

James C. Peacock, Washington, D. C., for intervenors.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, REED, Justice (Ret.) sitting by designation, JONES, Senior Judge, LARAMORE, DURFEE, SKELTON, and NICHOLS, Judges.


OPINION

LARAMORE, Judge.

The Act of June 19, 1935, 49 Stat. 388, ch. 275 (as amended by Act of June 5, 1942, 56 Stat. 323, and Act of June 4, 1945, 59 Stat. 231) gave this court jurisdiction to adjudicate all claims which the Tlingit and Haida Indians may have against the United States, including compensation owed both for land and other tribal property rights in southeastern Alaska expropriated by the United States and for the failure of, and refusal by...

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