Nusinginya

909 F.2d 1489 Unpublished Disposition NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Percy NUSUNGINYA, Defendant-Appellant. No. 89-30078. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 7, 1989. Decided Aug. 6, 1990. Before CANBY, WIGGINS and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Appellant Percy Nusunginya, an Inupiat Eskimo, was a whaling captain in Barrow, Alaska. On May 6, 1988, Nusunginya, aware that Barrow's village quota of whales had been met, went to his ice camp and struck, but did not land, a bowhead whale. As a result, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission expelled Mr. Nusunginya from its list of registered whaling captains. Shortly thereafter, the United States filed an information charging Nusunginya with one count of hunting for a bowhead whale in violation of the Whaling Convention Act, 16 U.S.C. Sec. 916 et seq., and its implementing regulations. Nusunginya moved to dismiss the…