BAY VIEW, INC. v. AHTNA, INC.

No. 95-35857.

105 F.3d 1281 (1997)

BAY VIEW, INC., on behalf of AK NATIVE VILLAGE CORPORATIONS; Lewis Olsen, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AHTNA, INC.; Artic Slope Regional; Bering Straits Regional Corp.; Calista Corp.; Chugach Alaska Corp.; Cook Inlet Region; Koniag, Inc.; Sealaska Corp.; The Aleut Corp.; Roy S. Ewan; Jacob Adams; Jack Carpenter; Roy M. Huhndorf; Frank Pagano; Alice Petrivelli; Bristol Bay Native Corporation; Nana Regional Corp.; Johnny Hawk; Michael Chittick; Morris Thompson; Byron Mallot, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel J. Fortier, Fortier & Mikko, Anchorage, Alaska; Thomas A. Holman, Lefrak & Holman, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

David C. Crosby, Wickwire, Greene, Crosby, Brewer & Seward, Juneau, Alaska, for defendants-appellees Artic Slope Regional Corporation and Jacob Adams.

William H. Timme, Middleton & Timme, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees Koniag, Inc. and Frank Pagano.

Patrick Anderson, Juneau, Alaska, for defendants-appellees Ahtna, Inc. and Roy S. Ewan.

James D. Linxwiler, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees Calista Corp., Johnny Hawk, Bering Straits Regional Corp., and Jack Carpenter.

Paul W. Koval, Koval & Featherly, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees The Aleut Corp. and Alice Petrivelli.

Bruce E. Gagnon, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees Sealaska Corp. and Byron Mallot.

Mark Rindner, Lane, Powell, Spears & Lubersky, Anchorage, Alaska; William D. Temko, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees Cook Inlet Region, Inc. and Roy Huhndorf.

John H. Sharer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees Doyon, Limited and Morris Thompson.

Philip Blumstein, Birch, Horton, Bittner & Cherot, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendantsappellees Chugach Alaska Corp. and Michael Chittick.

Leroy J. Barker and Julia B. Bockmon, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-appellee Bristol Bay Native Corp.

Before: GOODWIN, BRUNETTI and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge KOZINSKI.

OPINION

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

We decide whether a court may strike down a statute as violating the takings clause when the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491, provides an avenue for obtaining compensation.

I

Congress giveth and it taketh away. At most, that's what happened here to appellants, an Alaska native village corporation and an at-large shareholder of a Regional Corporation. In 1971, Congress...

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