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STRATMAN v. LEISNOI, INC.

No. 07-35934.

545 F.3d 1161 (2008)

Omar STRATMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LEISNOI, INC.; Koniag, Inc.; Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 6, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Snider, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiff-appellant.

David C. Shilton, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior.

R. Collin Middleton, Anchorage, AK, for defendant-appellee Koniag, Inc.

John Richard Fitzgerald, Morrison Mahoney, Boston, MA, for defendant-appellee Leisnoi, Inc.

Before: D.W. NELSON, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

In 1976, Omar Stratman began his quest to challenge the Secretary of the Interior's (the "Secretary") certification of Woody Island as a native village under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ("ANCSA"). Thirty-two years later, we must decide whether Congress ratified the Secretary's favorable 1974 eligibility determination when, in 1980, it enacted the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ("ANILCA") which listed Woody Island...

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