STATE OF ALASKA v. U.S.

No. 94-36176.

64 F.3d 1352 (1995)

STATE OF ALASKA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Edward F. Spang, State of Alaska Director, Bureau of Land Management; John M. Morehead; Walter Steiglitz, Defendants-Appellants, and Doyon, Ltd., and Chalkyitsk Native Corp., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Shawaker, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellants.

Jennifer A. Kohout, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, AK, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: HALL, WIGGINS, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals interlocutorily from the district court's order denying the United States' motion to dismiss this action on the grounds of sovereign immunity. We hold that the collateral order doctrine does not allow immediate appeal of such an order, and we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

The State of Alaska brought this action to quiet title to sections of the beds...

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