The state of Alaska has filed suit against the federal Department of the Interior in an attempt to overturn a legal opinion that allowed the Native Village of Eklutna to open a federally regulated gaming hall near Anchorage.
The lawsuit, filed in early February at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the legal opinion — issued by the Interior Department’s top attorney under the Biden administration — was “arbitrary and capricious, an…