STATE OF ALASKA v. U.S.

No. A80-359 Civil (Gulkana River).

662 F.Supp. 455 (1987)

STATE OF ALASKA, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Donald Hodel, Secretary of the Interior; Robert Penford, Alaska State Director, Bureau of Land Management; Ahtna, Inc., and STA-KEH Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

April 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold M. Brown, Atty. Gen., Micheal W. Sewright, Kenneth C. Powers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Law, Office of the Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Alaska, for State of Alaska.

Larry Martin Corcoran, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., General Litigation Section, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C., for defendant U.S.

Robert M. Goldberg, Robert M. Goldberg and Associates, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant Ahtna, Inc.

David C. Crosby, Wickwire, Lewis, Goldmark & Schorr, Seattle, Wash., Baily & Mason, Anchorage, Alaska, for amicus curiae Arctic Slope Regional Corp.


SECOND AMENDED ORDER RE PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT and UNITED STATES' CROSS MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS

LAUGHLIN E. WATERS, Senior District Judge.

This case raises difficult questions concerning application of the well settled principle that a state is vested with title to the beds underlying navigable waterbodies at the time the state enters the Union. The State of Alaska has filed this suit in part for the purpose of obtaining review...

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