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UNITED STATES v. ALASKA

No. 84, Orig.

521 U.S. 1 (1997)

117 S.Ct. 1888

138 L.Ed.2d 231

UNITED STATES v. ALASKA

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey P. Minear argued the cause for the United States. With him on the briefs were Acting Solicitor General Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General Schiffer, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, and Michael W. Reed.

G. Thomas Koester argued the cause for defendant. With him on the briefs were Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General of Alaska, Joanne M. Grace, Assistant Attorney General, and John Briscoe.*

O'Connor, J.,delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined, and in Parts I, II, and III of which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia, J., joined, p. 62.

Justice O'Connor, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This original action presents a dispute between the United States and the State of Alaska over the ownership of submerged lands along Alaska's Arctic Coast. In 1979, with leave of the Court, 442 U.S. 937, the United States filed a bill of complaint setting out a dispute over the right to offer lands in the Beaufort Sea for mineral leasing. Alaska counterclaimed, seeking a decree quieting its title to coastal submerged...

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