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NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE IRA COUNCIL v. STATE OF ALASKA

No. 96-35699.

155 F.3d 1150 (1998)

NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE IRA COUNCIL; Native Village of Fort Yukon IRA Council; Nancy Joseph; Margaret Solomon, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF ALASKA; John Pugh; Karen Perdue, in her official capacity as Commissioner of Health & Social Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Caldwell, Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Fairbanks, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

D. Rebecca Snow, Office of Attorney General, Fairbanks, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Before: FARRIS, O'SCANNLAIN, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

The governing bodies of the Native Alaskan villages of Venetie and Fort Yukon as well as two individual residents of those villages won declaratory relief in district court requiring the State of Alaska to give full faith and credit to adoption decrees issued by the villages. The villages now appeal the district court's denial of their motion for attorneys' fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. We reverse and remand for an award of attorney's fees...

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