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PEOPLE OF TOGIAK v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 77-0264.

470 F.Supp. 423 (1979)

PEOPLE OF TOGIAK et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia, C. D.

April 3, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Trister, Washington, D. C., David B. Snyder, Dillingham, Alaska, for plaintiffs.

William B. Morrison, Bruce C. Rashkow, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

Harold H. GREENE, District Judge.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)1 enacted by the Congress in 1972, allows Alaskan Natives2 to hunt walrus under specified conditions. However, the State of Alaska, to which the Secretary of the Interior has purported to transfer the power to regulate such hunting, effectively prohibits Native taking of these marine mammals. This is an action...

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