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UNITED STATES v. ZWEIFEL

No. 74-1087.

508 F.2d 1150 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Merle I. ZWEIFEL and Kenneth Roberts et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clement Theodore Cooper, Washington, D. C. (Franklin J. Smith, Cheyenne, Wyo., with him on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Jacques B. Gelin, Washington, D. C. (Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard V. Thomas, U. S. Atty., and Terrence L. O'Brien, Washington, D. C., with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

LEWIS, Chief Judge.

Twenty-seven persons who, through Merle I. Zweifel, filed association mining claim certificates covering large tracts of public land in Wyoming, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming invalidating their claims and quieting title to the lands in the United States. This appeal turns on the questions whether the district court had jurisdiction over the government...

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