DIDRICKSON v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

No. A85-336 Civil.

796 F.Supp. 1281 (1991)

Boyd DIDRICKSON and Marina Katelnikoff Beck, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, et al., Defendants. and Friends of the Sea Otter, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. ALASKA SEA OTTER COMMISSION and Ilarion Pletnikoff, Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, et al., Defendants. and Friends of the Sea Otter, et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

July 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Johnson, D. Todd Littlefield, Vance A. Sanders, Carol H. Daniel, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, for Didrickson and Beck.

Eric Smith, Anchorage, Alaska, for Alaska Sea Otter Com'n and Ilarion Pletnikoff.

Michale Carter, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for U.S.

Patty J. Saunders, Anchorage, Alaska, Stuart L. Somach, Sandra K. Dunn, De Cuir & Somach, Sacramento, Cal., for Friends of the Sea Otter, Greenpeace, Alaska Wildlife Alliance, and Humane Society of the U.S.


ORDER

(Motions for Summary Judgment)

HOLLAND, Chief Judge.

The principal question now before the court is whether or not a rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) properly interpreted the phrase "authentic native articles of handicrafts", under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).1 Plaintiffs seek a summary judgment invalidating the FWS's "interim final rule"2 which...

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