Coronavirus Aid For Alaska Native Corporations Held Up Pending Appeal

Mealey's (July 13, 2020, 8:52 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alaska Native corporations must wait at least until September to receive the $162.3 million allocated to them in federal coronavirus relief funding so tribes opposed to the allocation can appeal, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled June 7 in staying his decision in favor of the corporations pending an expedited appeal (Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. v. Steven Mnuchin, No. 1:20-cv-1002, D. D.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118734)....