Legal Opinion
Lee v. United States
District Court, D. Alaska
Decided January 23, 1985No. A79-336 Civil, A80-301 Civil and A82-411 CivilPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
FITZGERALD, Chief Judge.
James Lee, Ralph Eklund, and Warren Carr staked out homestead claims during the late 1950s in the Eagle River Valley within the Municipality of Anchorage. They and their families have had a running battle ever since with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and assorted other parties concerning their rights to those lands. Lee, Eklund, and Cora Carr (Warren’s widow) brought these consolidated actions in 1979-1982 under a variety of statutory and common-law theories, seeking to gain title to the disputed lands or to recover money damages for inverse…
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- State of California, Ex Rel., State Land Commission v. Yuba Goldfields, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
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