Mealey's (January 10, 2017, 12:11 PM EST) -- KETCHIKAN, Alaska — Federal habeas corpus relief is not available to an Alaskan tribal member seeking to avoid paying $2,300 in costs for his losing challenge to a mayoral election that he lost because a tribal court’s imposition of the costs is not “a severe restraint on his liberty,” a federal judge held Jan. 6 (Jim E. Scudero v. Jeff Moran, et al., No. 5:16-cv-00005, D. Alaska; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2414)....