- Triem v. Kake Tribal Corp.
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court of Alaska (2022)
Rachel Reiss
In Triem v. Kake Tribal Corp., 513 P.3d 994 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that a former class action representative and former class attorney did not have standing to appeal debt forgiveness motions in a separate but related class action. (Id. at 996). In the first class action ...
- Ray v. State
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Court of Appeals of Alaska (2022)
Jake Sherman
In Ray v. State, 517 P.3d 613 (Alaska Ct. App. 2022), the court of appeals held that the superior court did not err when it ordered a released prisoner who violated his probation to serve additional probation, although the released prisoner explicitly rejected such measures. (Id. at 613–14). ...
- Fairbanks North Star Borough v. Victory Ministries of Alaska, Inc.
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court of Alaska (2022)
Connor Sakati
In Fairbanks North Star Borough v. Victory Ministries of Alaska, Inc., 515 P.3d 111 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that a court no longer has subject matter jurisdiction when the court closes the initial case and another case based on the same underlying controversy begins. (Id. at 115–116). A ...
- Park v. Spayd
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court of Alaska (2022)
Flora Lipsky
In Park v. Spayd, 509 P.3d 1014 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that, according to the discovery rule, the statute of limitations begins to run as soon as a reasonable person would have discovered the elements of the cause of action. (Id. at 1019). Beginning in 2003, a ...
- Mulligan v. State, Department of Law
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court of Alaska (2022)
Alex Bartlow
In Mulligan v. State, Department of Law, No. S-18019, 2022 WL 2066044 (Alaska June 8, 2022) (unpublished), the supreme court held that although self-represented litigants are held to a less stringent standard, they must provide more than a cursory statement of the argument(s) on appeal in their appellate brief ...
- Anniskett v. Tracey
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court of Alaska (2022)
Alex Bartlow
In Anniskett v. Tracey, No. S-17398, 2022 WL 2717712 (Alaska July 13, 2022) (unpublished), the supreme court affirmed the superior court’s rulings declining to set aside a probate settlement agreement and dismissing, for failure to state a claim for relief, a separate lawsuit alleging conversion of estate property filed ...
- Windel v. Matanuska-Susitna Borough
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Clara Nieman
In Windel v. Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 496 P.3d 392 (Alaska 2021), the supreme court held that (1) an unchallenged res judicata judgment in a prior case bound the parties in the current proceeding and (2) a plaintiff’s pursuit of bad faith claims which had already been decided in prior cases justified an enhanced award ...
- PADRM Gold Mine, LLC v. Perkumpulan Investor Crisis Center Dressel – WBG
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Clara Nieman
In PADRM Gold Mine, LLC v. Perkumpulan Investor Crisis Center Dressel – WBG, 498 P.3d 1073 (Alaska 2021), the supreme court held that legal malpractice claims are not involuntarily assignable but declined to decide whether such claims are voluntarily assignable. (Id. at 1078). A group of Indonesian citizens (Perkumpulan) filed a federal fraud ...
- Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Department of Revenue
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, CIVIL PROCEDURE
Adam Beyer
In Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Department of Revenue, 488 P.3d 951 (Alaska 2021), the supreme court held that a Department of Revenue advisory bulletin was not a challengeable regulation for the purposes of the state’s Administrative Procedures Act and that the parties’ tax dispute was therefore not ripe. (Id. at 952). ...
- Doan v. Banner Health
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Daniel Clark
In Doan v. Banner Health, 485 P.3d 537 (Alaska 2021), the supreme court held that settlement funds may be withheld for non-settling defendants’ eventual attorneys’ fees; however, the court also held that reserved settlement funds may be partially distributed for the payment of plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees. (Id. at 542–45). In 2013, Doan’s estate ...
