ANCHORAGE – Clarice “Bun” Hardy’s legal team was forced to take further action against the City of Nome, which continues to disobey a court order directing it to provide records pertinent to resolving this case and bringing closure to Hardy. Last week, the ACLU of Alaska, ACLU National, and Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, […]
Alexander Archipelago Wolves Threatened by Logging, Trapping SITKA, Alaska— Conservation groups filed a formal notice Wednesday of their intent to sue the federal government for failing to act on a petition to protect Alexander Archipelago wolves in Southeast Alaska under the Endangered Species Act. Increased trapping and extensive logging have caused rapid population declines for […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On July 7th, Attorney General Treg Taylor joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general to file a lawsuit against Google in California. Utah v. Google alleges exclusionary conduct relating to the Google Play Store for Android mobile devices and Google Billing. The States accuse Google of using its dominance to unfairly restrict competition […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, on the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Alaska Statehood Act, Governor Mike Dunleavy announced that the State of Alaska is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior for illegally and unjustifiably extending decades-long restrictions on nearly 28 million acres of federal land in Alaska. The action by Secretary Haaland […]
Stutes: ‘I encourage the governor to focus his energy on approaches that will avoid locking down our economy’ JUNEAU – In response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s lawsuit against the Legislature and communication with the Supreme Court Chief Justice Joel Bolger, Speaker Louise Stutes released the following statement: “The fact that the governor is reaching out […]
ADFG Ignored Facts & Law, Catered to Special Interest Groups, with New Jet Ski Rule HOMER, AK—Tuesday a coalition of Alaskan groups filed suit in state court challenging the Dunleavy Administration’s unlawful move to rollback safeguards in the Kachemak Bay & Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Areas to accommodate a small but influential special interest […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, the State of Alaska asked the U.S. District Court in Anchorage for permission to participate in a lawsuit to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) approval of the Willow Project. The Willow Project would be located in the northeastern portion of the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, an area expressly set aside […]
(Juneau, AK) – The State of Alaska’s motion to intervene in a federal case that would threaten Southeast Alaska’s salmon fisheries was granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Tuesday. The Wild Fish Conservancy, a conservation organization based in Washington state, claims that Alaska’s management of fisheries under the […]
ANCHORAGE (AK)— The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups await their day in court after a U.S. District Court decided not to grant their request for an injunction that would have prevented the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from authorizing winter seismic work and issuing leases of lands in the coastal plain of the Arctic […]