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Court Sides with Alaska, Other States and Blocks CMS Vaccine Mandate

By Alaska Department of Law on Nov 30, 2021   Featured, Health, State  

Court Sides with Alaska, Other States and Blocks CMS Vaccine Mandate

(Anchorage, AK) – A U.S. District Court judge Monday issued an injunction to stop the federal government’s broad and overreaching vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, a victory for Alaska and nine other states that sued to block the requirement. The states sued the federal government earlier this month, maintaining that the mandate was unconstitutional under […]

Using DOJ ‘to Crush a Victim,’ Barr Claims Trump Cannot Be Sued for Denying E. Jean Carroll’s Rape Accusation

By Julia Conley | Common Dreams on Oct 20, 2020   Featured, National, National/World  

Using DOJ ‘to Crush a Victim,’ Barr Claims Trump Cannot Be Sued for Denying E. Jean Carroll’s Rape Accusation

  “There is not a single person in the United States—not the president and not anyone else—whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted,” Carroll’s lawyers said.  In Attorney General Bill Barr’s latest attempt to help President Donald Trump avoid accountability for an alleged rape he is accused of committing in the 1990s, Barr on […]

Dunleavy Administration Seeks Preliminary Injunctions Against Federal Subsistence Board

By Jeff Turner | Office of the Governor on Aug 11, 2020   Featured, Interior Alaska, State  

Dunleavy Administration Seeks Preliminary Injunctions Against Federal Subsistence Board

  (Anchorage) – Monday, the State of Alaska filed two preliminary injunctions in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska against actions recently taken by the Federal Subsistence Board. The first injunction would halt the unwarranted and unjustified closure of federal lands in Unit 13 to non-federally qualified hunters. The second injunction would […]

Trump Refuses to Disclose Census-Related Documents

By Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Jun 12, 2019   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Trump Refuses to Disclose Census-Related Documents

  WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege Wednesday to refuse to hand over documents to opposition Democratic lawmakers investigating a question about citizenship on next year’s once-a-decade U.S. census. Trump’s action came just ahead of a scheduled vote by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on whether to hold Attorney General William […]

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Arctic Habitat of Endangered Ice Seals

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Mar 15, 2019   At Sea, Featured, National, National/World  

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Arctic Habitat of Endangered Ice Seals

  [dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice Thursday of its intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to compel the designation of critical habitat in Alaska for two ice seal species. Both bearded and ringed seals are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because their Arctic sea-ice habitat is melting. “As […]

Native Village, Conservation Groups Challenge Winter Oil, Gas Drilling in Western Arctic

By Kristen Monsell | Center for Biological Diversity on Mar 1, 2019   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Native Village, Conservation Groups Challenge Winter Oil, Gas Drilling in Western Arctic

Lawsuit Targets Cursory Federal Assessment of ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Drilling in Alaska Petroleum Reserve ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Native Village of Nuiqsut tribal government and five conservation groups have challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, America’s single largest area of public lands.  […]

Top Democrat to Sue Justice Department if Mueller Report is Withheld

By VOA on Feb 25, 2019   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Top Democrat to Sue Justice Department if Mueller Report is Withheld

  A top House Democrat says his committee will sue the Trump administration if the Justice Department withholds the Mueller report from the public. “We will obviously subpoena the report, we will bring Bob Mueller in to testify before Congress, we will take it to court, if necessary,” Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told ABC’s This […]

Alaskans Sue State to Protect Wild Salmon

By Jenny Weis on Oct 1, 2018   State  

Alaskans Sue State to Protect Wild Salmon

ANCHORAGE, AK—On September 27, the Chuitna Citizens Coalition filed an appeal in state Superior Court challenging the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ unprecedented decision to deny their legal right to reserve water in a stream to protect wild salmon. “It’s just not fair. The state says mining companies can get rights to take water out […]

Alaskans Challenge Old-growth Timber Sale in Tongass National Forest

By CBD on May 16, 2018   Southeast Alaska, State  

Alaskans Challenge Old-growth Timber Sale in Tongass National Forest

JUNEAU― Local conservation and business interests represented by Earthjustice sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday to stop an old-growth timber sale on Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Alaska, says the Forest Service’s environmental analysis is 11 years old and fails to consider new threats from the proposed […]

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