United States Ninth Circuit

In a case about certification of Woodsy Island as a native village under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the appeal is dismissed as moot where section 1427 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ratified the state's certification decision regarding the island by listing defendant as a deficiency village corporation entitle to lands under the ANCSA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2008
• Decided 10/06/2008
• Published 10/06/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Snider, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• 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.