Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes MICHAEL LEE RAE, APPELLANT V. STATE OF ALASKA, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, APPELLEE Even though a court may provide procedural assistance to a pro se litigant, a judge may not provide substantive legal assistance to the pro se litigant. Criminal Law – Pro se...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes DOUGLAS INDIAN ASSOCIATION, APPELLANT V. CENTRAL COUNCIL OF TLINGIT AND HAIDA INDIAN TRIBES OF ALASKA, ET AL, APPELLEES Because tribal sovereign immunity goes to subject matter jurisdiction, it is not an affirmative defense and may be raised in a motion to dismiss before...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes TIMOTHY W., APPELLANT, V. JULIA M., APPELLEE A judge’s unflattering comments about a litigating party’s professional ability and mental health issues will not necessarily create bias or the appearance of bias, when those comments are made in open court and pursuant to the...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes CAITLYN E., APPELLANT V. STATE OF ALASKA, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES, OFFICE OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES, APPELLEE. The state’s expert witness was properly qualified because her expert testimony was based on cultural knowledge and therefore did not rely on formal...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes ESTATE OF JAMES V. SEWARD, DECEASED A scrivener’s error during the preparation of a will does not automatically void that will if it is otherwise valid. Probate law – Wills MATTHEW H., APPELLANT, V. STATE OF ALASKA, DEPARTMENT OF...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes JAY YUK and HEE SU YUK, APPELLANTS, V. SIDNEY L. ROBERTSON, SR. and THERESA A. ROBERTSON, APPELLEES. The existence of a municipality’s sewer easement on a piece of disputed land will not prevent an adverse possessor from meeting the exclusivity requirement. ...
The court’s refusal to provide a permissive adverse inference jury instruction for the appellant, based on the appellee’s failure to produce certain documents during discovery, was deemed harmless because appellant’s attorney was permitted to argue in closing arguments that the jury was allowed to make...
Wife was not entitled to prejudgment interest on proceeds from the sale of a marital home that hadn’t sold yet because she could not suffer a loss of the use of money until she was legally entitled to the money, which was either when the...
Ambiguously written option to purchase a leasehold interest was ruled unenforceable, because it failed to include a purchase price or a method for determining a purchase price, and the intent of the parties could not be clearly determined....
Plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim was properly dismissed by summary judgment because it was not brought within two years of the point in time when plaintiff knew or should have known he had a medical malpractice claim....
