LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR v. FISHERIES CONSERV.

No. S-15662.

363 P.3d 105 (2015)

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF the STATE of Alaska, Appellant, v. ALASKA FISHERIES CONSERVATION ALLIANCE, INC., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 31, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joanne M. Grace and Elizabeth M. Bakalar , Assistant Attorneys General, Anchorage, and Craig W. Richards , Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellant.

Matthew Singer , Holland & Knight LLP, Anchorage, Susan Orlansky , Reeves Amodio LLC, Anchorage, and Jeffrey M. Feldman , Summit Law Group, Seattle, Washington for Appellee.

William D. Falsey , Sedor Wendlandt Evans & Filippi, LLC, Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Resources for All Alaskans, Inc.

Before: STOWERS, Chief Justice, WINFREE, MAASSEN, and BOLGER, Justices.


OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

The Lieutenant Governor declined to certify a proposed ballot initiative that would ban commercial set net fishing in nonsubsistence areas, reasoning that the initiative was a constitutionally prohibited appropriation of public assets. But the superior court approved the initiative...

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