Katie John v. Norton
Attorney: Heather Kendall-Miller

Katie John at Mentasta Village, photo taken by Ray Ramirez

Case Update

On January 7, 2005, Katie John filed a law suit in the District of Alaska challenging the Secretaries’s final rule implementing the prior Katie John mandate as being too restrictive in its scope. Katie Johns complaint alleges that the Secretaries should have included Alaska Native allotments as public lands and further that the federal government’s interest in water extends upstream and downstream from the Conservation Units established under ANILCA. Briefing on summary judgment has been concluded and the case is ripe for decision on the merits.

Consolidated with State v. Norton.

Photo: Katie John