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PEOPLE OF SAIPAN v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 73-1769.

502 F.2d 90 (1974)

The PEOPLE OF SAIPAN, By and Through Herman Q. GUERRERO, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR et al., Governmental Defendants and Appellees, and Continental Airlines, Inc., a Nevada corporation, Corporate Defendant and Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

July 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Withers, III, Edward C. King (argued), Daniel H. MacMeekin, Micronesian Legal Services Corp., Saipan, Mariana Islands, for plaintiffs and appellants; Richard A. Falk, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., of counsel on the brief.

Charles W. Kenady (argued) of Cooper, White & Cooper, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant and appellee Continental Air Lines.

Carlos Salii, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Saipan, Mariana Islands,

Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington D. C., for defendants and appellees.

Before TRASK and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.

ALFRED T. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, citizens of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (known also as Micronesia), sued in the district court to challenge the execution by the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of a lease permitting Continental Airlines to construct and operate a hotel on public land adjacent to Micro Beach, Saipan. Plaintiffs appeal a judgment of dismissal.

The district court held that the Trust Territory government is...

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