CRAWFORD v. ANTONIO B. WON PAT INTE'L AIRPORT

No. 17-16942.

917 F.3d 1081 (2019)

Vicente Palacios CRAWFORD, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ANTONIO B. WON PAT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY, Guam; Eddie Baza Calvo; Ricardo C. Duenas, GIAA Board Chairman; Anthony Ada, In His Official Capacity as Chairperson of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 1, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott M. Grzenczyk (argued), Jordan Elias , and Daniel C. Girard , Girard Gibbs LLP, San Francisco, California; Ignacio Cruz Aguigui , The Law Offices of Ignacio Cruz Aguigui, Tamuning, Guam; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Genevieve Rapadas (argued), Jay D. Trickett , and Kathleen V. Fisher , Calvo Fisher & Jacob LLP, Hagåtña, Guam, for Defendants-Appellees Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, Guam, and Ricardo C. Duenas.

David J. Highsmith (argued), Assistant Attorney General; Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Tamuning, Guam; for Defendants-Appellees Eddie Baza Calvo and Anthony Ada.

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judge, and Leslie E. Kobayashi, District Judge.


OPINION

Around the time of World War II, the United States government took, for little or no compensation, numerous tracts of real property from private Guamanian landowners for military use. Plaintiff Vicente Palacios Crawford is the son of two such landowners. Plaintiff's ancestral land is in the Tiyan region...

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