Tribes, Alaska Villages Oppose High Court Petitions Over CARES Act Funds

Mealey's (December 18, 2020, 12:37 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With no divide among the circuit courts and no error of law to fix, the U.S. Supreme Court should deny two petitions for certiorari seeking to have $162.3 million in federal COVID-19 emergency relief funding distributed to Alaska Native corporations (ANCs), several Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages say in three Dec. 16 response briefs in opposition (Steven T. Mnuchin v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., No. 20-543, Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., No. 20-544, U.S. Sup.)....