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NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE v. STATE OF ALASKA

No. F86-075 Civ.

687 F.Supp. 1380 (1988)

NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE I.R.A. COUNCIL, Native Village of Fort Yukon I.R.A. Council, Nancy Joseph, and Maragaret Solomon, Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF ALASKA and John Pugh, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

May 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith K. Bush and Andrew Harrington, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Fairbanks, Alaska, for plaintiffs.

Douglas K. Mertz, Office of Atty. Gen., State of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, for defendants.

DECISION

KLEINFELD, District Judge.

This is evidently a test case brought by the plaintiffs to determine unsettled questions of the scope of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The plaintiffs seek to compel the state to recognize tribal court adoption decrees, although the tribal courts at issue have not taken the statutory steps to "reassume" jurisdiction. The two individual plaintiffs have refrained from adopting...

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