Legal Opinion
City of Angoon v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, and Shee Atika, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1988No. 87-3600PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
We must decide two questions of Alaska law: did the district court err in concluding that Alaska would not recognize an abuse of process cause of action for filing a notice of lis pendens; and did the court err in concluding that Alaska would not recognize a cause of action of “prima facie tort?” The court did not err. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
In 1981, the Secretary of the Interior conveyed to Shee Atika land on Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska.
The Sierra Club sued the Secretary in the District of Columbia to overturn the conveyance and stop logging on Admiralty…
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