In Taffe v. First National Bank of Alaska,[1] the supreme court held the statute of limitations for a misrepresentation begins to run when the plaintiffs should reasonably have discovered an appreciable injury from the misrepresentation. Taffe and Lehner borrowed money in the form of two loans from First National Bank of Alaska in 2006 to Continue Reading »
In Torgerson v. State,[1] the court of appeals held that a judicial officer must assess a defendant’s conditions of relief at a first bail review hearing. Torgerson was charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the district court. The judge imposed non-monetary conditions agreed to by the parties, but also set a higher monetary Continue Reading »
In Wahl v. State,[1] the supreme court held that the former-testimony exception to the hearsay rule does not require the opposing party to have had an identical motive to develop the testimony during the previous proceeding; it further held that the superior court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that Wahl did not used Continue Reading »
In Williams v. State,[1] the court of appeals held that it was not plain error for the trial judge to give a jury instruction that did not require factual unanimity on the specific way in which Williams violated a protective order. Williams was convicted of two counts of violating protective orders that prohibited her from Continue Reading »
