ALEKNAGIK NATIVES LTD. v. UNITED STATES

No. 85-4116.

806 F.2d 924 (1986)

ALEKNAGIK NATIVES LIMITED; Aleknagik City Council; and Aleknagik Village Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior; Gail Ozmina, Townsite Trustee, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and English Bay Village Council and Port Graham Village Council, Intervening Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Vollintine, Vollintine, Taylor & Carey, Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Deborah Smith, Asst. U.S. Atty., Monte Engel, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Before SNEED, KENNEDY, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

The native Alaskan village corporation Aleknagik and its city and village council brought suit in the district court against the Secretary of the Interior and various individual defendants. The village councils of Port Graham and English Bay intervened as defendants. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, and we consider the appeal by the nonprevailing parties. We affirm.

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