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STATE v. LEWIS

No. 3039.

559 P.2d 630 (1977)

STATE of Alaska et al., Appellants, and Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Appellant by Intervention, v. J.R. LEWIS and Harold H. Galliett, Jr., Citizens and Taxpayers of the State of Alaska, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

January 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Reeves, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for State of Alaska.

Allen McGrath and John R. Snodgrass, Jr., Anchorage, for Cook Inlet Region, Inc.

Raymond A. Nesbett, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, ERWIN and BURKE, JJ.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

In this appeal we are asked to resolve difficult state constitutional issues involving a three-way exchange of land between the State of Alaska, the United States Government and the Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (Cook), a regional corporation of Alaska Natives organized under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. The issue before this court is whether the Alaska statute, Chapter...

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