ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Court of Appeals of Alaska (2025) Olivia Sontag In State v. Rosenbruch-Decker, 567 P.3d 715 (Alaska Ct. App. 2025), the Court of Appeals of Alaska held that two game guides violated a regulation prohibiting “taking” of game animal with the aid of a wireless communication device when they used a radio to locate Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2025) Adam Yaggy In Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Bureau of Land Management, 141 F.4th 976 (9th Cir. 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management’s use of the “full field development” Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Adam Yaggy In Cassell v. State, 567 P.3d 1273 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that a regulation treating Alaska residents differently than nonresidents for the purpose of hunting Kodiak brown bears did not violate the Alaska state constitution. (Id. at 1275). A hunting regulation places Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2025) Mike Galane In State, Department of Fish & Game v. Federal Subsistence Board 139 F.4th 773 (9th Cir. 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that ANILCA provides the Federal Subsistence Board the power to authorize an emergency Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2024) Caitlyn Leary In Alaska Trappers Ass’n, Inc. v. City of Valdez, 548 P.3d 332 (Alaska 2024), the supreme court held that a city ordinance regulating trapping was a valid exercise of the city’s authority over public safety and land use. (Id. at 340). In 2005, the City of Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2023) Hannah Berg In Williams Alaska Petroleum Inc. v. State, 529 P.3d 1160 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that sulfolane is a hazardous substance pursuant to Alaska Statute (AS) 46.03.826(5)(A) of the Environmental Conservation Act. (Id. at 1177). Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc. and The Williams Companies, Inc. operated Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (2023) Catherine Cole In Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, 67 F.4th 1027 (9th Cir. 2023), the Ninth Circuit decided a government entity’s designations of areas as either an occupied critical habitat or as an unoccupied critical habitat were arbitrary and Continue Reading »
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; ENVIRONMENTAL LAW United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (2023) Katie Raya In In re Clean Water Act Rulemaking, 60 F.4th 583 (9th Cir. 2023), the 9th Circuit held that courts may not vacate agency actions in conjunction with granting requests for voluntary remands without first holding the agency action unlawful. (Id. at Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWUnited States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2022)Kristiana OlsonIn Safari Club International v. Haaland, 31 F.4th 1157 (9th Cir. 2022), the court held that theAlaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) preserves the federal government’sauthority over Alaska’s public lands. (Id. at 1165). In 2013, Alaska expanded access to brown bearhunting. (Id. at 1166). The Continue Reading »
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWUnited States District Court, District of Alaska (2022)Sam MacDuffieIn United States v. Alaska, 608 F. Supp. 3d 802 (D. Alaska 2022), the court granted the UnitedStates’ motion for preliminary injunction of an Alaskan state order allowing any Alaskan to gillnetfish in the Kuskokwim River. (Id. at 814). The federal Alaska National Interest LandsConservation Act Continue Reading »
