1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.2d
  4. 918 F.2d
  5. 918 F.2d 797 (1990)
 

NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE I.R.A. COUNCIL v. ALASKA

No. 88-3929.

918 F.2d 797 (1990)

NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE I.R.A. COUNCIL; Native Village of Fort Yukon I.R.A. Council; Nancy Joseph; Margaret Solomon, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF ALASKA; Myra Munson, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated August 10, 1989.

Resubmitted May 8, 1990.

Decided November 6, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith K. Bush, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Fairbanks, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

D. Rebecca Snow, Office of the Atty. Gen., Fairbanks, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Rebecca Craven, Native American Program, Oregon Legal Services, Portland, Or., for amici curiae Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde of Oregon.

Lloyd Benton Miller, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Miller, Anchorage, Alaska, for amici curiae Alaska Federation of Natives.

Before O'SCANNLAIN, LEAVY and TROTT, Circuit Judges.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether federal law requires the state of Alaska to accord "full faith and credit" to child-custody determinations made by the tribal courts of native villages.

I

The native villages of Venetie and Fort Yukon lie on or above the Arctic Circle in Alaska's frozen tundra. Venetie has a population of 132, according to the 1980 census, all but three of whom are native. Five hundred and eighty-six people reside...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases