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Legal Citation: 437 U.S. 518 (1978)

Appellants
Tommy Ray Woodruff, Frederick A. Mathers, Emmett Ray, Betty Cloud, Joseph G. O'Brien, et al.

Appellee
Edmund Orbeck, Alaska Commissioner of Labor

Appellants' Claim
That the "Alaska Hire" statute, giving Alaska residents preference in all hiring for jobs created by the state's oil and gas industry was unconstitutional.

Chief Lawyer for Appellants
Robert H. Wagstaff

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Ronald W. Lorensen, Assistant Attorney General of Alaska

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr. (writing for the Court), Warren E. Burger, Thurgood Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

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