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| Baker v. State, Supreme Court No. S-12598, No. 6301,
SUPREME COURT OF ALASKA, August 29, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Notices reducing Medicaid services under a personal care attendant program sent by the Department of Health and Human Services violated due process because the notices failed to provide the assessment data of each recipient's social, medical, and nursing needs, as necessary for each recipient to perfect an administrative appeal.
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| Bragg v. Borough, Supreme Court Nos. S-12576/12596, No. 6303,
SUPREME COURT OF ALASKA, August 29, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Arguments of plaintiff taxpayers that the borough lacked authority to levy an excise tax on tobacco under Alaska Stat. ¿ 29.35.170, or that another part of the tax provision required voter ratification under Alaska Stat. ¿ 29.45.670 both failed, although the taxpayers had standing as citizens to challenge the tax provisions in court.
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| Burnett v. Covell, Supreme Court No. S-12517, No. 6299,
SUPREME COURT OF ALASKA, August 29, 2008, Decided
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Overview: In a case in which a law office visitor was injured when a chair in the office collapsed under him, the visitor failed to establish sufficient grounds under which a factfinder could conclude that the owner of the law office did not act reasonably in maintaining his office.
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| Haggblom v. City of Dillingham, Supreme Court No. S-12358, No. 6302,
SUPREME COURT OF ALASKA, August 29, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Although dog owner argued that "provocation," which was not defined in city's dog bite ordinance, was so vague as to not give adequate notice of what conduct was prohibited, her arguments were unpersuasive. No reasonable person would conclude that coworker provoked dog by merely walking to owner's office door and putting her hand on child's gate.
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| Wayne B. v. Alaska Psychiatric Inst., Supreme Court No. S-12677, No. 6300,
SUPREME COURT OF ALASKA, August 29, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Master's failure to file a transcript of master's hearing with superior court, in compliance with Alaska R. Civ. P. 53(d)(1), was reversible error, which required the vacatur of the orders involuntarily committing the patient to the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, a massive curtailment of liberty, and requiring him to submit to psychotropic drugs.
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| Cotting v. State, Court of Appeals No. A-9909, No. 5384,
COURT OF APPEALS OF ALASKA, September 3, 2008, Decided
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Overview: A juvenile, who was convicted of murder in the first degree, under Alaska Stat. ¿ 11.41.100(a)(1)(A), and sexual assault in the first degree, under Alaska Stat. ¿ 11.41.410(a), was appropriately sentenced to a composite sentence of 99 years of imprisonment because of the heinous nature of the crime; future discretionary parole was not restricted.
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| Phillips v. State, Court of Appeals No. A-10180, No. 5385,
COURT OF APPEALS OF ALASKA, September 3, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Judge did not abuse his discretion in refusing to relax the rules under Alaska R. Crim. P. 53 to allow defendant to file a late peremptory challenge of the judge because the judge had been the assigned judge for a substantial period of time and had made substantive rulings in the case and the trial in the case had begun.
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| Itta v. State, Court of Appeals No. A-9873, No. 2182,
COURT OF APPEALS OF ALASKA, September 5, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Evidence was sufficient under Alaska Stat. ¿ 12.45.020 to corroborate accomplice testimony that defendant participated in an assault where a police officer and another witness testified that defendant admitted hitting the victim in the chest and the bottoms of defendant's shoes matched footprints that the police found at the scene of the assault.
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