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The decision on sovereign immunity affects several of the state’s largest-private sector employers and could have broad implications.
The Alaska Supreme Court overturned a 20-year-old precedent Friday by ruling that Alaska Native tribal organizations can more easily receive the kind of sovereign legal immunity that individual tribes have. Friday’s 4-1 decision means the tribal consortiums that provide health care for tens of thousands of Alaskans — both Native and non-Native — are largely […] The post Alaska tribal health consortiums are legally immune in many cases, state Supreme Court says appeared first on Alaska Beacon.
The Alaska Supreme Court overturned a 20-year-old precedent Friday by ruling that Alaska Native tribal organizations can more easily receive the kind of sovereign legal immunity that individual tribes have.