United States Ninth Circuit

Under the unambiguous terms of the 1976 Deficiency Agreement between the Department of the Interior and an Alaska Native corporation, pursuant to which Native villages in the Cook Inlet region are entitled to select specified acreages of land from the public domain, all of the lands listed in Appendix A must be transferred before any Appendix C lands may be transferred.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/12/2003
• Decided 02/26/2004
• Published 02/26/2004

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge:, Before: PREGERSON, CANBY, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David C. Crosby, Juneau, AK;  Bruce E. Gagnon, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Inc., Anchorage, AK;  James D. Linxwiler, Guess & Rudd, PC, Anchorage, AK, for the appellants., Rebecca L. Bernard, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, AK, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew C. Mergen,Lisa E. Jones, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the appellees.