ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2025)
Lily Skopp
In Rivera v. State, Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles, 564 P.3d 1040 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska determined that a driver whose license has been revoked in another state cannot obtain a new driver’s license in Alaska while that revocation is still in effect. (Id. ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2025)
Teddy Brodsky
In Department of Fish and Game v. Cook Inletkeeper, 576 P.3d 654 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that the Commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game had the authority to repeal a regulation through the rulemaking process. (Id. at 659). Alaska’s Board of Fisheries, Board ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2025)
Tommy Nowak
In Bittner v. Board of Game, 563 P.3d 1123 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that an Alaska resident who alleged an interest-injury caused by amendments to the State’s predator control program, which expanded the killing of bears and wolves, had standing to sue. (Id. at 1131). ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2024)
Ryan Ciemny
In City of Soldotna v. State, 2024 WL 4312593 (Alaska Sept. 27, 2024), the supreme court held that it is within the Local Boundary Commission’s (the Commission) statutory authority to convert an annexation petition and subject it to local vote instead of legislative review if the Commission has a ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2024)
Madison Detweiler
In City of Valdez v. Regul. Comm’n of Alaska, 548 P.3d 1067 (Alaska 2024), reh’g denied (May 31, 2024), the supreme court held that interested parties must exhaust all reasonably available administrative remedies before seeking judicial review of a Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) decision that (1) denied a request for ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2024)
Holly Merrill
In Lookhart v. State, Division of Corps., Business, & Professional Licensing, Board of Dental Examiners, 548 P.3d 1094 (Alaska 2024), the supreme court held that the Board of Dental Examiners did not abuse its discretion when it revoked a dentist’s license after the dentist had been convicted on forty-six ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2023)
Cara Shanahan
In AVCG, LLC v. State, 527 P.3d 272 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that an agency engages in rulemaking if its interpretation of an existing regulation adds requirements of substance, is unforeseeable, or changes the agency’s approach. (Id. at 281). The Alaska Venture Capital Group, LLC (AVCG) owned interests in ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (2023)
Katie Raya
In In re Clean Water Act Rulemaking, 60 F.4th 583 (9th Cir. 2023), the 9th Circuit held that courts may not vacate agency actions in conjunction with granting requests for voluntary remands without first holding the agency action unlawful. (Id. at 588). The case ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Supreme Court of Alaska (2023)
Olivia Wagner
In Taylor v. Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency, 529 P.3d 1146 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that the attorney general’s common law powers do not allow suit against the legislature. (Id. at 1158). On June 16, 2021, the Alaska Legislature passed a budget bill to fund state government during ...ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2022)
Robert Bulka
In Inter-Cooperative Exchange v. United States Department of Commerce, 36 F.4th 905 (9th Cir. 2022), the Ninth Circuit held that an agency’s response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request is inadequate where it chooses only three search terms which together are not reasonably calculated ...