Alaska v. Jewell
Petition for certiorari denied on March 31, 2014
Issue: (1) Whether the Ninth Circuit properly held – in conflict with this Court’s decisions – that the federal reserved water rights doctrine authorizes the unprecedented federal takeover of Alaska’s navigable waters sanctioned by the 1999 Rule; and (2) whether the Ninth Circuit properly proceeded on the premise – which also conflicts with this Court’s decisions – that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act could be interpreted to federalize navigable waters at all given Congress’s silence on the Act’s application to navigable waters.
| Date | Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding) |
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| Sep 20 2013 | Application (13A306) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 3, 2013 to November 4, 2013, submitted to Justice Kennedy. |
| Sep 27 2013 | Application (13A306) granted by Justice Kennedy extending the time to file until November 4, 2013. |
| Nov 4 2013 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 6, 2013) |
| Nov 19 2013 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the Native American Rights Fund. |
| Nov 25 2013 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including January 21, 2014, for all respondents. |
| Dec 5 2013 | Brief amicus curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation filed. |
| Dec 6 2013 | Brief amici curiae of Colorado, et al. filed. |
| Jan 15 2014 | Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including February 20, 2014, for all respondents. |
| Feb 20 2014 | Brief of Federal Respondents in opposition filed. |
| Feb 20 2014 | Brief of respondents Alaska Federation of Natives, and Katie John, et al. in opposition filed. |
| Mar 11 2014 | Reply of petitioner Alaska filed. |
| Mar 12 2014 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 28, 2014. |
| Mar 31 2014 | Petition DENIED. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. |
