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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF CAL.

No. 77-4043.

655 F.2d 914 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1980.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Almy, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., on brief; Darryl L. Doke, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before TRASK and HUG, Circuit Judges, and WYATT, District Judge.

TRASK, Circuit Judge:

On May 20, 1973, the federal government fought a fire in the Stanislaus National Forest in the State of California. This fire was allegedly caused by employees of the California Ecology Corps when they built and failed to properly extinguish a campfire. The fire burned 179 acres of national forest land and 56 acres of private land before it was extinguished.

The earliest claim submitted to the State of California for the costs of suppressing...

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