Alaska Legislature will support state’s bootlegging penalties in front of U.S. Supreme Court

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: September 11, 2026

Words: 349

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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The Alaska Legislature will join Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration in seeking to defend the state’s anti-bootlegging punishments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Thursday, the joint House-Senate Legislative Council voted to hire an outside attorney to draft a friend-of-the-court letter — formally known as an amicus brief — in support of the state and against Ken Jouppi, a former Bush pilot whose plane was seized after a bootlegging …

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