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Court Rules Alaska Witness Signature Requirement for Absentee Ballots is Unconstitutional During COVID-19 Pandemic

By Megan Edge | Alaska ACLU on Oct 5, 2020   Featured, State  

Court Rules Alaska Witness Signature Requirement for Absentee Ballots is Unconstitutional During COVID-19 Pandemic

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska court has ruled that the witness requirement for absentee ballots is unconstitutional during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parties in this case are working now to determine how the Election Division can alert voters about any subsequent changes. The lawsuit was filed by the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), American Civil […]

Dunleavy Administration Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Oil and Gas Tax Credit Bonds

By Jeff Turner | Office of the Governor on Sep 5, 2020   Featured, State  

Dunleavy Administration Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Oil and Gas Tax Credit Bonds

  (Anchorage) – Friday the Alaska Supreme Court, in Forrer v. State of Alaska, struck down legislation enacted under the previous Walker administration in 2018 that authorized the issuance of “subject-to-appropriation” bonds to pay outstanding cashable oil and gas tax credits.  According to the Department of Revenue, there is $743 million in outstanding tax credits […]

Judge’s ruling on EPA chemical dispersants lawsuit impacts Alaska

By Bob Shavelson | Cook Inlet Keeper, Sharon Donovan | Earth Island Institute on Jun 26, 2020   Featured, State  

Judge’s ruling on EPA chemical dispersants lawsuit impacts Alaska

  A significant ruling came down recently in a lawsuit regarding the use of oil spill chemical dispersants that has an Alaska connection. In addition to its relevance to the oil industry in Alaska, several plaintiffs in the case are based in Alaska: Alaska’s Cook Inletkeeper, which has spent the past 25 years holding the oil and […]

Court Rules That Epa’s Decision to Abandon Bristol Bay Protections Can’t Be Legally Challenged

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Apr 19, 2020   Featured, Southwest Alaska, State  

Court Rules That Epa’s Decision to Abandon Bristol Bay Protections Can’t Be Legally Challenged

  ANCHORAGE – The federal district court in Alaska dismissed a consolidated lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s removal of proposed protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The EPA’s 2014 proposed protections under the Clean Water Act would have protected Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble mine project, but EPA withdrew its proposed determination in 2019. The […]

Federal Court Rules Against Massive Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Plan in Alaska

By Randi Spivak | Biological Diversity on Mar 12, 2020   Featured, Southeast Alaska, State  

Federal Court Rules Against Massive Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Plan in Alaska

  JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska. The judge ruled that the project’s approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which sets standards for public engagement on federal projects that will alter the environment, […]

Fifth Circuit Ruling on Trump’s Health Care Repeal Lawsuit Puts Future of Law in Grave Doubt

By Protect Our Care Alaska on Dec 19, 2019   Health, National, National/World  

Fifth Circuit Ruling on Trump’s Health Care Repeal Lawsuit Puts Future of Law in Grave Doubt

  Appeals Court Sides with GOP Led Plaintiffs in Declaring Law Unconstitutional, Remands Final Decision to Judge who Already Said Entire Law Should Fall   Washington, DC — Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration in Texas vs. United States, striking down as unconstitutional the ACA’s individual mandate and […]

Judge Sides With Legislature, Rules That Forward Funding of Education is Constitutional

By Austin Baird | Akleg on Nov 9, 2019   Featured, Politics, State  

Judge Sides With Legislature, Rules That Forward Funding of Education is Constitutional

‘Students, parents, teachers and school administrators deserve certainty in funding’ ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Superior Court issued an order Thursday evening that ruled against the governor’s attempt to reject the Legislature’s forward funding of K-12 education. The court ruled that legislative action to remove uncertainty for schools by passing a two-year school budget is constitutional: […]

Foreign Money Flows Into US Politics

By Brian Padden | VOA on Nov 6, 2019   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Foreign Money Flows Into US Politics

WASHINGTON – Untold amounts of foreign donations are flowing into America’s political system, with little accountability or limits. Although election experts say it’s impossible to accurately estimate the extent of foreign financial influence over U.S. elections, many agree it has increased substantially since a landmark Supreme Court ruling nearly a decade ago opened the flood […]

‘Historic’ Alaska Ruling Could Provide Roadmap to Defeating Citizens United

By Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams on Nov 6, 2019   Featured, Politics, State  

‘Historic’ Alaska Ruling Could Provide Roadmap to Defeating Citizens United

“This decision gives Alaskans and all Americans a chance to revisit those destructive decisions.” A ruling in a court in Alaska Monday could open the door to imposing more restrictions on super PACs and possibly reversing the infamous 2012 Citizens United by the U.S. Supreme Court that in 2012 upended the nation’s campaign finance laws. Anchorage Superior […]

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