CRIMINAL LAW Court of Appeals of Alaska (2025) Drew Loughlin In Burton-Hill v. State, 569 P.3d 1 (Alaska Ct. App. 2025), the Court of Appeals of Alaska held that the crime of riot as defined in AS 11.61.100(a) requires the common-law elements of mutual agreement by defendant and at least five other people and applies Continue Reading »
CRIMINAL LAW Court of Appeals of Alaska (2025) James Blair In Burney v. State, 563 P.3d 86 (Alaska Ct. App. 2025), the Court of Appeals of Alaska held that the trial court’s determination that a jury tampering incident was not presumptively prejudicial was error, because the trial court framed the incident from the perspective of Continue Reading »
CRIMINAL LAW Court of Appeals of Alaska (2025) Suleyman Amjad In Ballard v. State, 576 P.3d 686 (Alaska Ct. App. 2025), the Court of Appeals of Alaska held that signed and notarized calibration reports of a breathalyzer are admissible under the public records exception to hearsay and are self-authenticating documents. (Id. at 690–91). Ballard was Continue Reading »
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Katharine Roberts In Valoaga v. State, Department of Corrections, 563 P.3d 42 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that the Department of Corrections did not violate a pretrial inmate’s right to due process by using the preponderance of the evidence standard, rather than the clear and Continue Reading »
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Drew Loughlin In Smith v. Municipality of Anchorage, 568 P.3d 367 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska remanded the superior court’s decision not to rule on whether a “campsite abatement” was proper, holding that the superior court could hear that constitutional issue within its jurisdiction. (Id. at Continue Reading »
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Tommy Nowak In Jouppi v. State, 566 P.3d 943 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that it was not unconstitutionally excessive punishment to confiscate the airplane of a pilot who attempted to transport alcohol into a dry village. (Id. at 947–48). Jouppi, the owner of a Continue Reading »
CIVIL PROCEDURE Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) James Blair In Roseberry v. North Slope Borough School District, 568 P.3d 338 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that when a trial record clearly shows that a federal court would have declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over a state claim that a complainant did not Continue Reading »
BUSINESS LAW United States District Court for the District of Alaska (2025) Adam Yaggy In Rosauer v. Alaska Diesel Electric, Inc., 771 F. Supp. 3d 1092 (D. Alaska 2025), the United States District Court for the District of Alaska rejected a marine engine repair service’s motion for summary judgment, finding genuine issues of material fact. Continue Reading »
BUSINESS LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Alison Tobin In Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Duvall, 568 P.3d 1224 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that debt purchasers seeking to collect debt not expressly authorized by the agreement that created the debt or permitted by law, and that filing suit without adequate proof Continue Reading »
BUSINESS LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2025) Lily Skopp In Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. v. Deutsche Oil & Gas, S.A., 566 P.3d 252 (Alaska 2025), the Supreme Court of Alaska determined that the law governing whether to pierce the corporate veil of a foreign corporation should be assessed using an interest-based analysis rather than strictly following Continue Reading »
