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

No. 88-3929.

944 F.2d 548 (1991)

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.

Opinion November 6, 1990.

Opinion Withdrawn September 12, 1991.

Decided September 12, 1991.

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.

ORDER

The opinion reported at 918 F.2d 797 (9th Cir.1990) is hereby withdrawn, and the attached opinion filed in its stead. With this amended opinion, the plaintiffs-appellants' petition for rehearing is denied.

OPINION

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...

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