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PENOBSCOT NATION v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.

No. 00-2265.

254 F.3d 317 (2001)

PENOBSCOT NATION, et al., Appellants, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, et al., Appellees. State of Maine, Defendant, Intervenor-Appellee,

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 20, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaighn Smith, Jr. with whom Gregory W. Sample and Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon were on brief for appellants.

Catherine R. Connors with whom Matthew D. Manahan and Pierce Atwood were on brief for appellees.

William R. Stokes, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, were on brief for defendant, intervenor-appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

The appellants in. this case, the Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe ("the Tribes"), occupy tribal lands in Maine. The corporate appellees — Georgia-Pacific Corp., Great Northern Paper, Inc., and Champion International Corp. ("the companies") — operate pulp and paper mills that discharge waste water in rivers near or flowing through the Tribes' reservations. A dispute developed between the Tribes and the State of Maine...

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