UNITED STATES
v.
ALASKA

U.S. | 1980-02-19
No. 84
444 U.S. 1065 Supreme Court of the United States (1980) Positive Treatment
Cited by 3 cases

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Synopsis

The Supreme Court appointed a Special Master to oversee proceedings in a dispute between the United States and Alaska, granting him authority to manage pleadings, take evidence, issue subpoenas, and summon witnesses, with costs to be shared among the parties as the Court would later determine.

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Opinion of the Court

It is ordered that J. Keith Mann, Esquire, of Stanford, Cal., be appointed Special Master in this case with authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings, and with authority to summon witnesses, issue subpoenas, and take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may deem necessary to call for. The Master is directed to submit such reports as he may deem appropriate.

The Master shall be allowed his actual expenses. The allowances to him, the compensation paid to his technical, stenographic and clerical assistants, the cost of printing his report, and all other proper expenses shall be charged against and be borne by the parties in such proportion as the Court may hereafter direct.

It is further ordered that if the position of Special Master in this case becomes vacant during a recess of the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to make a new designation which shall have the same effect as if originally made by the Court.

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  • United States v. Alaska, 521 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1997)
    …ing a decree quieting its title to coastal submerged lands within two federal reservations, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Range (now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). The Court appointed a Special Master. 444 U. S. 1065 (1980). Between 1980 and 1986, the Special Master oversaw extensive hearings and briefing. Before us now are the report of the Special Master and the exceptions of the parties. We overrule Alaska’s exceptions and sustain that of the United States.…
  • California v. Nevada, 447 U.S. 125 (U.S. 1980)
    …ns regarding the validity of certain titles which depended upon the location of the border. The Special Master’s report was filed in this Court on October 29, 1979, 444 U. S. 922, and we set Nevada’s exceptions and related matters for oral argument. 444 U. S. 1065 (1980). Nevada’s Constitution stated that its boundary would proceed “in a North Westerly direction along [the oblique section of the] Eastern boundary line of the State of California to the forty third degree of Longitude West from Washington [and…
  • Texas v. Oklahoma, 448 U.S. 905 (U.S. 1980)
    …position of Special Master in this case becomes vacant during a recess of the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to make a new designation which shall have the same effect as if originally made by the Court. [For earlier order herein, see 444 U. S. 1065.]…

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