Alaska Native Corporations Petition High Court Over Denial Of CARES Act Funds

Mealey's (October 23, 2020, 12:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alaska Native corporations turned to the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 21 in their fight for $162.3 million in COVID-19 emergency federal relief funding, saying in a petition for certiorari that they are indeed “Indian tribes” entitled to the funding pursuant to statute and precedent (Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., No. n/a, U.S. Sup.)....