Challenge To Native Alaskan Village Merger Fails, 9th Circuit Says

Mealey's (October 24, 2017, 1:17 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The purported tribal attorney and tribal court judge for a Native Alaskan corporation cannot pursue claims that another native corporation fraudulently transferred reservation land because the attorney and judge are not members of the tribe, and they forfeited their arguments on appeal by failing to raise them in the trial court, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 20 (Koniag, Inc., et al. v. Kurt Kanam, et al., No. 16-35632, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 20681)....