(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska plans to appeal a bitter ruling for the Alaska Southeast troll fishery Tuesday by a federal judge in Washington. The order by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones upheld a magistrate’s earlier opinion by adopting, in part, a report and recommendation that vacates the incidental take statement for […]
A memo from the school’s legal department shows how “Republican politicians are already criminalizing abortion, which has extreme consequences—but they won’t stop there,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. New anti-abortion guidance issued to employees at the University of Idaho last week exemplifies how the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade has threatened not only […]
(Anchorage, AK) Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the legislature cannot dedicate future revenues for future budgetary cycles. The Alaska Legislature can–as always–set aside funds from the current budgetary cycle to be spent in future years for Alaska’s school districts. In Dunleavy v. Alaska Legislative Council, the Alaska Supreme Court reversed a Superior Court decision and […]
“Every few paragraphs of the majority opinion has another line that dismissively and casually cuts apart tribal independence that Native ancestors gave their lives for,” observed one Indigenous law professor. Indigenous leaders on Wednesday condemned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows authorities in Oklahoma and other states to prosecute certain crimes on sovereign tribal land, […]