We must decide whether an Alaska law regulating campaign contributions violates the First Amendment. At issue are Alaska’s limit on contributions made by individuals to candidates, its limit on contributions made by individuals to election-related groups, its limit on political party-to-candidate contributions, and its limit on the total funds a candidate may receive from out-of-state residents. T... More...    $0 (11-29-2018 - AK)

Challenged in this case are land and water use permits allowing intensive
mineral exploration on State land. The main question we address is whether the
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had to give public notice before issuing the
permits. Because the Alaska Constitution requires public notice when interests in land
are transferred, the answer to this question depends on wheth... More...    $0 (05-29-2015 - AK)

This case involves a dispute over the disposition of a deceased Alaska
attorney’s interest in attorney’s fees from his participation, through a joint venture, in the
Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation. The attorney’s sister, individually and on behalf of their mother’s trust, asserted claims to the attorney’s fees, and the attorney’s estate opposed those claims. The parties sett... More...    $0 (05-03-2013 - AK)

We are asked to consider two narrow legal questions arising from the Alaska Records Management Act 1 and the Alaska Public Records Act: 2 (1) when state employees use private email accounts to send and receive email regarding state business, are the emails “public recordsâ€� under the Public Records Act, and (2) is the use of a private email account to send and receive email regarding state busi... More...    $0 (10-12-2012 - Ak)

Offshore Systems – Kenai (Offshore) operates a commercial dock facility on Cook Inlet in the Kenai Peninsula Borough (Borough). Nikishka Beach Road traverses Offshore’s property. The public has used this road to access the beach since the 1950s. In 2007 Offshore installed a gate blocking the road. The State and the Borough sought an injunction against Offshore, alleging a public right-of-way o... More...    $0 (07-27-2012 - AK)

In 2002 Kevin O’Connell was awarded damages against Anthony and Paulette Will for the Wills’ failure to pay a promissory note. Under the attorney’s fee provision in the note, O’Connell was also awarded full attorney’s fees and costs. After O’Connell’s attorney engaged in post-judgment collection efforts, Anthony Will paid the judgment. In 2009 Anthony Will filed a request for an orde... More...    $0 (10-28-2011 - AK)

In 1971, William Carlo Jachetta applied for a 160-acre Native allotment comprised of two parcels (Parcel A and Parcel B) but, because of an error of the United States government, his application was initially processed only as a request for Parcel A, which the Bureau of Land Management (“BLMâ€�) issued to Jachetta in 1986. In 2004, after long and complicated administrative proceedings, the BLM f... More...    $0 (08-01-2011 - AK)

Plaintiffs Dyer L. Vandevere, John McCombs, Gary Hollier, and John Jent fish commercially for salmon in the waters of Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet. State-issued entry permits and shore fishery leases allow them to fish there. After Alaska promulgated regulations that shorten the fishing year and limit the number of salmon that commercial fishers may harvest, Plaintiffs brought this action against D... More...    $0 (07-11-2011 - AK)

This appeal addresses a dispute between Jeffrey Labrenz and Shane and Jill Burnett over the use of land described in an easement. Labrenz has a driveway easement over the Burnetts’ land, and in building his driveway, Labrenz installed decorative rocks, shrubs, trees, a fence, and a gate on the Burnetts’ property. The superior court agreed with Labrenz that the slope of the Burnetts’ land nec... More...    $0 (10-20-2009 - AK)

Deborah Luper raises dogs on property she owns in the City of Wasilla. City ordinances applicable to her property prohibited keeping more than three dogs without a permit. When the city sued Luper to enforce its ordinance, she applied for a use permit for an eighteen-dog kennel. The city denied her permit application and she appealed. After consolidating her permit appeal with the city’s enforce... More...    $0 (09-11-2009 - AK)

A Dillingham ordinance provides that any animal that bites a person without provocation shall be deemed vicious and, after quarantine, shall be euthanized. A Dillingham dog owner whose dog bit a co-worker without provocation appeals the city’s order, affirmed by the superior court, for euthanasia or banishment of the animal. Finding no constitutional or procedural infirmity, we affirm.

II... More...    $0 (08-31-2008 - AK)

On April 20, 2004, the owners of three p... More...    $0 (04-02-2008 - AK)

This appeal concerns a permit issued to Defendant- Appellee Alaska Gold Company ("AGC"), by Defendant- Appellee Army Corps of Engineers ("the Corps") for a major gold-mining project near Nome, Alaska. The permit was issued pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), 33 U.S.C. § 1344, which authorizes the Corps to issue permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material in... More...    $0 (01-08-2008 - AK)

One January day, Coca-Cola and other private sponsors supported a "Winter Olympics Torch Relay" in Juneau, Alaska. Students were released from school so that they could watch the Olympic torch pass by. Joseph Frederick, then an 18-year-old senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, never made it to school that morning because he got ... More...    $0 (03-14-2006 - AK)

This is the third appeal arising out of the Alaska Railroad Corporation's quarry operations on culturally significant land adjacent to the Native Village of Eklutna, which lies within the boundaries of the Municipality of Anchorage. Eklutna sought a preliminary injunction to enjoin the Railroad from blasting and all other quarry activities, arguing that the Railroad does not have a conditio... More...    $0 (03-12-2004 - AK)

Lois Gilbert appeals the dismissal of two cases that she filed against the Nina Plaza Condominium Association and condominium owner Steven Simonka. The superior court dismissed Gilbert's first case for failing to comply with the pretrial scheduling order. The court dismissed her second case, and subsequently refused to reopen it, for failing to properly serve the defendants. Because the superi... More...    $0 (02-14-2003 - AK)

The Van Deusens sued their neighbors, the Seaveys, to enjoin a private nuisance caused by numerous sled dogs kenneled on the Seaveys’ property. The superior court denied an injunction. Did this denial collaterally estop the Van Deusens’ second lawsuit to enjoin the Seaveys? We hold that it does because the Van Deusens have not demonstrated that there was any genuine factual dispute... More...    $0 (08-23-2002 - AK)

Damco Paving Corporation operated a commercial rock quarrying operation under a licensing agreement at the Alaska Railroad Corporation's quarry in Eklutna. The superior court enjoined its operations after the adjacent Native Village of Eklutna and several of its residents filed suit alleging that Damco was operating a quarry in violation of the applicable zoning ordinances of the Municipalit... More...    $0 (02-15-2002 - AK)