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 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. ...
Alaska Supreme Court Headnotes none Alaska Courts of Appeals Headnotes SHANNON M. SILOOK, APPELLANT, V. STATE OF ALASKA, APPELLEE. Defendant’s conviction of hindering prosecution was reversed on the basis that her lies to the police did not qualify as “rendering aid,” because the lies did not rise to the...
Assuming that you and your spouse didn't enter into a Community Property Agreement or Community Property Trust under Alaskan law, then your impending, or pending, divorce case likely falls into the equitable distribution system for dividing marital property....
File this under "unforeseen collateral consequences of misdemeanor arrest and conviction #47,543" Collateral consequences are the often overlooked ramifications of being arrested, convicted at trial or by plea, or being found to have committed an act of domestic violence in a long-term protective order hearing where...
If you were falsely charged with a crime, is there someone in your life who could drop everything and keep you within their sight or sound twenty-four hours a day seven days a week until your case resolves? Could they do it for 6 months...
The lag time between research and science and legislators and laws can be most easily measured in decades - and that's how it is supposed to be. But for those left in the lurch, that place between generally accepted scientific fact and courtroom reality, it...
With the benefit of hindsight, I believe sex offender registration requirements and mentally deviant sexual offender (MDSO) therapy reached their apogee sometime in the last two years. Arguments can be made that the first sign that gravity had begun to act was the passage of...
