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AKIACHAK NATIVE COMMUNITY v. JEWELL

Civil Action 06-969 (RC).

995 F.Supp.2d 1 (2013)

AKIACHAK NATIVE COMMUNITY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Sally JEWELL, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants, and The State of Alaska, Intervenor.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hollis L. Handler , Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Juneaau, AK, Richard A. Guest , Native American Rights Fund, Washington, DC, Heather Kendall Miller , Native American Rights Fund, Anchorage, AK, Andrew R. Harrington , Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Fairbanks, AK, for Plaintiffs.

Maureen Elizabeth Rudolph , Daniel G. Steele , United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Elizabeth Jeanne Barry , J. Anne Nelson , State of Alaska Department of Law, Anchorage, AK, for Intervenor.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Rudolph Contreras, United States District Judge.

On March 31, 2013, the court found that the regulations governing the taking of land into trust under Section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. § 465, which "do not cover the acquisition of land in trust status in the State of Alaska, except acquisitions for the Metlakatla Indian Community of the Annette Island Reserve or it[s] members," 25 C.F.R. § 151.1 thereby violate...

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