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Alaska Judge Keeps Ruling On Newtok Village Leadership
Law360 (February 26, 2021, 7:50 PM EST) An Alaska federal judge has refused to upend his 2015 decision that three former leaders of the Newtok Village must stop misrepresenting themselves as tribal officers, saying the tribe s governing council had properly raised claims under federal law.
Andy T. Patrick, Joseph Tommy and Stanley Tom had sought to lift U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline s 2015 injunction against them, claiming their dispute over leadership of the federally recognized Newtok Village wasn t cut out for federal court.
Judge Beistline said in a decision Thursday that his injunction and default judgment against the three defendants for failure to defend against the suit.