(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska is challenging the 2020 Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) decision that found land in dispute at the northwestern boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) belongs to the federal government and not the State of Alaska. In 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) denied the State’s […]
ANCHORAGE – Five years after Clarice ‘Bun’ Hardy’s report of sexual assault was ignored by the Nome Police Department (NPD), she and her legal team finalized a settlement in her lawsuit against the City that includes a $750,000 payment and an apology from the City of Nome. “I have been reliving trauma for the last […]
ANCHORAGE – Tuesday, attorneys for 16 young Alaskans, including Alaska Natives, filed a petition for rehearing to the Alaska Supreme Court in the children’s constitutional climate case, Sagoonick v. State of Alaska. The petition for rehearing was filed in response to a split 3-2 decision on January 28th, where the Alaska Supreme Court denied the […]
Some of the plaintiffs in the newly filed case “have even given up on their dreams for their future,” said one of their lawyers. Six people—aged 6 to 16 years old at the time of the Fukushima meltdown—filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Tokyo Electric Power Company, demanding millions in compensation for thyroid cancer they say […]