ALASKA PUBLIC EASEMENT DEFENSE FUND v. ANDRUS

Civ. Nos. A75-204, A77-16, and A77-17.

435 F.Supp. 664 (1977)

ALASKA PUBLIC EASEMENT DEFENSE FUND, an unincorporated association, Dale Bondurant, Tom Prunty, Darrell Farmen, Plaintiffs, v. Cecil ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior, Curt Berklund, Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, and Curtis McVee, Alaska Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Defendants. CALISTA CORPORATION, Chugach Natives, Inc., Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Doyon, Limited, Koniag, Inc., Nana Regional Corporation, Inc., Alaska Federation of Natives, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Cecil ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior, Defendant, State of Alaska, Defendant by Intervention. SEALASKA CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF the INTERIOR, Defendant, State of Alaska, Defendant by Intervention.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

As Amended August 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Mark Wine, Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Donald J. Beighle, Juneau, Alaska, David Wolf, Keane, Harper, Pearlman & Copeland, Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs Alaska Public Easement Defense Fund in A75-204 and for Calista Corp. et al. in 77-16 and Sealaska Corp. in 77-17.

James D. Sourant, Sourant & Strandberg, Henry J. Camarot, and Mark A. Sandberg, Merdes, Schaible, Staley & DeLisio, Robert M. Goldberg, Joe P. Josephson, Anchorage, Alaska, James Wickwire, Wickwire, Lewis, Goldmark & Dystel, Seattle, Wash., E. G. Burton, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Inc., Ben J. Esch, Dickson, Evans & Esch, Robert Wagstaff, Wagstaff & Middleton, A. Robert Hahn, Jr., Hahn, Jewell & Stanfill, John Anthony Smith, Russell J. Gallagher, Gallagher, Cranston & Snow, Kenneth P. Eggers, Groh, Benkert & Walter, Anchorage, Alaska, J. P. Tangen, Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh & Bradley, Juneau, Alaska, Peter R. Ellis, Ellis, Sund & Whittaker, Inc., Ketchikan, Alaska, James D. Linxwiler, John R. Snodgrass, Graham & James, Douglas B. Baily, Matthews, Dunn & Baily, Anchorage, Alaska, for Alaska Public Easement Defense Fund.

Michael M. Holmes, Falkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Juneau, Alaska, Thomas Meacham, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Edward Weinberg, Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer, Arthur Lazarus, Jr., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, Washington, D. C., Milton M. Souter, Kodiak, Alaska, Stan B. Stanfill, Hahn, Jewell & Stanfill, Anchorage, Alaska, Richmond F. Allen, Weissbrodt & Weissbrodt, Washington, D. C., for Calista Corp. et al. in 77-16 and for Sealaska Corp. in 77-17.

G. Kent Edwards, U. S. Atty., Dist. of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

von der HEYDT, Chief Judge.

These causes come before the court on various motions for summary judgment.1 The motions present to the court the issue of the scope of the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to reserve easements upon lands to be patented to Native corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,2 43 U...

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