The INUPIAT COMMUNITY OF the ARCTIC SLOPE, a federally-recognized Indian tribe; Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, a native village corporation, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
The UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Alaska.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 1, 1982.
October 1, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James D. Gilmore, Gilmore & Feldman, Anchorage, Alaska, Richard M. Berley, Robert L. Pirtle and Mason Morisset of Ziontz, Pirtle, Morisset, Ernstoff & Chestnut, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs.
Cynthia Pickering, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Michael Spaan, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for United States of America, Cecil D. Andrus, Sec'y of Interior and Frank Gregg, Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
Thomas E. Meacham, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for Jay Hammond, Governor of the State of Alaska and Robert E. Leresche, Commissioner of Alaska Dept. of Labor Resources.
Dan A. Hensley and Margie Mac Neille of Duncan, Weinberg & Miller, Anchorage, Alaska, for Koniag, Inc.
William H. Timme, Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Anchorage, Alaska, Richard Anthony Baenen, Erwin Foster De Reitzes and Jacquelyn R. Luke, Washington, D. C., for NANA Regional Corp.
Bruce Monroe, Birch, Horton, Bittner, Monroe, Pestinger & Anderson, Juneau, Alaska, for Sealaska Corp.
Carl J. D. Bauman and Richard O. Gantz of Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, Alaska, Edward R. Mackiewicz and Brice M. Clagett of Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., for Amoco Production Co., Atlantic Richfield Co., B. P. Alaska Exploration, Inc., Chevron, Cities Service Oil Co., Conoco, Inc., Exxon Corp., Gulf Oil Corp., Hamilton Bros. Oil Co., Murphy Oil, Phillips Petroleum Corp., Rowan Drilling Co., Shell Oil Co., Sohio Natural Resources, Texasgulf, and Union Oil Co.
United States District Court, D. Alaska.
OPINION
FITZGERALD, District Judge.
In this case the Inupiat people of Alaska's north slope seek to quiet title in large portions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas beyond the three mile limit.1 The plaintiffs include the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, a federally recognized tribe, suing on its own behalf and on behalf of its members, the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, a village corporation organized pursuant to the Alaska...
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