9th Circuit Revives Alaska’s Claim Over Special Hunt For Natives During Pandemic

Mealey's (March 16, 2023, 10:45 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A challenge by an Alaskan agency to a decision by the federal government to open a subsistence hunt for a Native American village due to the COVID-19 pandemic is not moot, but the state’s challenge to a second order closing a hunting area to the public to aid subsistence hunters during the pandemic is, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in reversing in part, vacating in part and remanding....