D.C. Circuit Says Alaska Native Corporations Not Eligible For CARES Act Funds

Mealey's (September 28, 2020, 12:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alaska Native corporations are not entitled to receive $162.3 million allocated to them in emergency federal coronavirus relief funding because they do not meet the definition of "Indian Tribe" as required by the funding statute, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Sept. 25 (Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. v. Steven Mnuchin, et al., Nos. 20-5204, 20-5205, 20-5209, D.C. Cir.)....