Alaska Licensee Law

Nunamta Aulukestal v. State of Alaska

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)

Alaska Stock, L.L.C. v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

We address whether copyright registration of a collective work registered the component works within it. Facts This case was dismissed for failure to state a claim, so we assume for purposes of analysis that the facts were as pleaded in the complaint. Alaska Stock, a stock photography agency, registered large numbers of photographs at a time, listing only some of the authors a... More...

$0 (03-18-2014 - AK)

Alaska Rent-A-Car v. Avis Budget Group, Inc. fka Cendant Corporation

Several state law questions arise in this appeal, and three federal law questions, whether expert testimony should have been excluded under Daubert1, whether disallowance of a ALASKA RENT-A-CAR V. AVIS BUDGET GROUP 5 2 Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986). 3 Alaska Civil Procedure Rule 82. 4 "We recount the relevant facts in the manner most favorable to the ju... More...

$0 (06-21-2013 - AK)

Sonja Alvarez v. State of Alaska, Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles

A driver appeals the 90-day suspension of her driver's license two and a half years after her arrest for drunk driving. The delay was almost entirely due to the fact that the officer who arrested her was deployed to Iraq with the military shortly after her arrest, and the suspension hearing was continued until the state learned of his return. The driver challenges the suspension on constitutional,... More...

$0 (03-18-2011 - AK)

<a href="http://www.state.ak.us/courts/ops/sp-5795.pdf" target="_new">Alaska Trademark Shellfish, LLC, et al. v. State of Alaska, et al.</a>

This case requires us to determine whether Alaska law gives shellfish farmers the exclusive right to harvest wild stocks already growing on their farm sites. Several applicants asked the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for aquatic farm permits allowing them to grow and commercially harvest geoduck clams in Alaska waters. When the Department of Fish and Game declined to give them exclusiv... More...

$0 (04-18-2004 - AK)