STURGEON v. FROST

No. 17-949.

139 S.Ct. 1066 (2019)

John STURGEON, Petitioner v. Bert FROST, in His Official Capacity as Alaska Regional Director of the National Park Service, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew T. Findley , Anchorage, AK, for the petitioner.

Ruth Botstein for Alaska, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner.

Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler for the respondents.

William S. Consovoy , Jeffrey M. Harris , J. Michael Connolly , Consovoy McCarthy Park PLLC, Arlington, VA, Douglas Pope , Pope & Katcher, Anchorage, AK, Matthew T. Findley , Eva R. Gardner , Ashburn & Mason, P.C., Anchorage, AK, for petitioner.

Noel J. Francisco , Solicitor General, Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Rachel P. Kovner , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Andrew C. Mergen , Elizabeth Ann Peterson , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondents.


This Court first encountered John Sturgeon's lawsuit three Terms ago. See Sturgeon v. Frost, 577 U. S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 1061, 194 L.Ed.2d 108 (2016) (Sturgeon I). As we explained then, Sturgeon hunted moose along the Nation River in Alaska for some 40...

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