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Gunter v. Contango ORE, Inc.

United States District Court for the District of Alaska · Federal district courts · AK · 2026-04-23 · No. 3:25-cv-00307-ACP · order

Fabricated or misquoted citationscourt does not name AI

The District of Alaska on 2026-04-23 admonished the self-represented party for unverified or fabricated authorities and cautioned against repeating the citation misconduct. The self-represented party filed a submission with three mischaracterized case citations, one fabricated legal rule, and one fabricated or AI-like submission item, including Jimerson v. Tetlin Native Corp. as holding that transactions affecting ANCSA l.

Disposition: Contango Ore’s motion to dismiss was granted and the complaint was dismissed without prejudice for lack of federal jurisdiction.
Recorded conduct: Gunter relied on a phantom ANCSA provision that does not exist as the basis for federal jurisdiction; the court also noted that certain citations in his filings had incorrect and incomplete identifying information. — outcome: dismissal; actor: litigant in person
Canonical record: Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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The Court recognizes the difficulty of making this showing and thus does not reach this conclusion lightly. However, Gunter is not advancing a debatable interpretation of an ambiguous law, which would clearly give rise to federal jurisdiction. He is relying on a phantom provision ofANCSAthat does not exist. Beyond that, Gunter offers no explanation for how ANCSA directly imposes a voting requirement on native corporation land sales. And because Gunter’s claim has no foundation in the text of ANCSA or any other tool of statutory interpretation, it is “completely devoid of merit as not to involve a federal controversy. ”62 Akiachak Native Comm.

Authorities cited in the passage: Plaintiff cited Jimerson v. Tetlin Native Corp. as holding that transactions affecting ANCSA l · Inc. v. Doyon, Ltd. to argue the 1996 deed was improper

Court document: govinfo.gov
Public copy first read: damiencharlotin.com
Read: 2026-09-08 · court's own copy read
Found via: charlotin-hallucinations-db
Notes: Official copy located 2026-09-08 via govinfo; quoted passage confirmed in the official document. Re-coded from the document 2026-09-08 (independent second read).

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