City Of Saint Paul, Alaska v. Donald Evans

344 F.3d 1029 CITY OF SAINT PAUL, ALASKA, a municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald EVANS, Secretary of The U.S. Department of Commerce; Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Tanadgusix Corporation, an Alaska corporation, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-35958. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted August 14, 2003 — Anchorage, Alaska. Filed September 25, 2003. Stephen M. Truitt, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Washington, D.C., and Ronald L. Baird, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellant City of St. Paul. Douglas F. Strandberg, Friday Harbor, Washington, and Terrance A. Turner, Owens & Turner, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee Tanadgusix Corporation. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska; H. Russel Holland, Chief Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-97-00181-HRH. Before: Harry Pregerson, William C. Canby, Jr., and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges. OPINION McKEOWN, Circuit Judge: 1 This case is the latest round in a long-simmering legal feud between an Alaska Native corporation and a municipality over ownership of land on St. Paul, one of the Pribilof Islands, located…