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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4332 Environmental Policy - Coop of Agency Repo

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA 

ORUTSARARMUIT NATIVE COUNCIL, 

et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF 

ENGINEERS, et al., 

Defendants, 

and 

DONLIN GOLD, LLC, et al. 

Intervenor-Defendants. 

Case No. 3:23-cv-00071-SLG 

ORDER RE STATE OF ALASKA’S MOTION TO INTERVENE 

Before the Court at Docket 28 is the State of Alaska’s Motion to Intervene in 

the instant dispute as a matter of right, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

24(a)(2). Federal Defendants responded at Docket 32 that they do not oppose 

permissive intervention and take no position on the State’s request to intervene as 

of right. Intervenor-Defendants do not oppose the motion. Plaintiffs responded with 

a qualified non-opposition at Docket 33 to which no reply was filed. 

Upon due consideration, the State of Alaska’s (“State”) motion is hereby 

GRANTED as follows: IT IS ORDERED that the State is hereby admitted into this 

litigation as an Intervenor-Defendant with full rights of participation. However, the 

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Case No. 3:23-cv-00071-SLG, Orutsararmiut Native Council, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, et al.

Order re 

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Court agrees with Plaintiffs that its proposed answer is deficient insofar as it 

contains a number of paragraphs that assert that a document “speaks for itself” as 

to allegations that do not describe documents. 1 See Rule 8(b)(1)(B), Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure. Compliance with this rule should help inform the Court 

and the parties of the State’s position and potentially narrow the issues in this case. 

Therefore, within seven days of the date of this order, the State shall file an answer 

that rectifies the deficiencies identified in this order. 

DATED this 14th day of July 2023, at Anchorage, Alaska. 

/s/ Sharon L. Gleason 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

1 See Docket 33 at 3 (identifying paragraphs 3, 4, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 50, 

53, 54, and 73 as deficient). 

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