State Of Alaska v. United States

64 F.3d 1352 64 USLW 2162 , 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7044 , 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12 ,046 STATE OF ALASKA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Edward F. Spang, State of Alaska Director, Bureau of Land Management; John M. Morehead; Walter Steiglitz, Defendants-Appellants, and Doyon, Ltd., and Chalkyitsk Native Corp., Defendants. No. 94-36176. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 8, 1995. Decided Sept. 6, 1995. Edward J. Shawaker, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellants. Jennifer A. Kohout, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, AK, for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Before: HALL, WIGGINS, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. WIGGINS, Circuit Judge: 1 The United States appeals interlocutorily from the district court's order denying the United States' motion to dismiss this action on the grounds of sovereign immunity. We hold that the collateral order doctrine does not allow immediate appeal of such an order, and we dismiss the appeal for lack of…