Two Nome-area miners have filed a federal lawsuit against the Alaska State Troopers and Sitnasuak Native Corp., one of the largest landowners in the region. The suit, filed last month in the U.S. District Court in Alaska, alleges the miners were unlawfully prevented from using a public beach to reach their mining claims. The miners, Paul Fussell and Larry St. Clair, are representing themselves. They say they were threatened with arrest while tra…
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