SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 16, 2021
Share Are Alaska Native corporations — special corporations that Congress created in 1971 when it resolved Native claims in Alaska — “Indian tribe[s]” under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act? On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument on that question in Yellen v.
JURIST
MAY 10, 2022
.” In March, the Ninth Circuit reversed a decision by the United States District Court for the District of Alaska setting aside a land exchange agreement approved by then-Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. The decision could open the door for development on millions of acres of federal public lands.
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The Crime Report
MAY 19, 2022
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo warns that the expected Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v Wade could trigger a spike in violence and embolden extremists and white supremacists who could target abortion rights advocates, Reuters reports. They were 1.7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 11, 2021
“Alaska Supreme Court decision gives joint custody to non-biological mom in same-sex couple that split”: Casey Grove of Alaska Public Media has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Alaska issued Friday.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 18, 2023
In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” Under EPCA, the U.S. Berkeley has not yet said whether it will appeal the Ninth Circuit’s ruling.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal. Alaska, filed Nov.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.
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