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• Title: Earl S. Atkinson Et Al. v. George Edward
• Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
• Release Date : January 16, 1977
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 98 KB

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The case comes before us on a petition for review from the superior courts denial of petitioners motion for summary judgment. This litigation involves the deaths of two Metlakatla Indians, Marilyn Alice Haldane and Romey Ervin Williams, residents of the Metlakatla Indian Community, resulting from injuries incurred in an automobile accident May 12, 1974, on the reservation. Their personal representatives filed suit in the superior court for the State of Alaska, at Ketchikan, against the Community of Metlakatla, certain Community officials, and four police officers employed by the Community. The complaint alleged that the defendant police officers recklessly and negligently operated their vehicle, thereby causing the accident from which the deaths resulted (count I); the police officers negligently failed to render aid and assistance to the victims of the accident (count II); the police officers conspired to violate the civil rights of the decedents, accorded pursuant to 25 U.S.C. §§ 1301-03, the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (count III); and the defendant Community of Metlakatla and the defendant officials of the Community of Metlakatla negligently trained the police officers involved (counts I-III). The complaint also sought punitive damages (count Iv). Jurisdiction was alleged pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1360(a) which provides, in relevant part:

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