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THOMAS v. BAILEY

Nos. 4204, 4220.

595 P.2d 1 (1979)

Lowell THOMAS, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska, Appellant, Michael F. Beirne and the New Homesteaders, Intervenor-Appellants, v. Edgar BAILEY, Wesley M. Howe, Patrick L. Dobey, James L. Pitts, Gerald Ganopole, Molly Crenshaw, Eric Olson, Justine Beryl Johnson, Trustees for Alaska, Appellees. Lowell THOMAS, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska, Appellant, Michael F. Beirne and the New Homesteaders, Intervenor-Appellants, v. Clifford E. WARREN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Thomas Koester, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant.

John K. Norman, J. Michael Robbins, Cole, Hartig, Rhodes, Norman & Mahoney, Anchorage, for appellant-intervenors.

Wilson A. Rice and John B. Gaguine, Anchorage, for appellees.

Clifford E. Warren, in pro per.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

This consolidated appeal concerns the constitutional validity of an initiative which was enacted by the voters as "The Alaska Homestead Act."1

In two different court actions, the initiative was attacked as unconstitutional. After the superior court ruled in both cases that the initiative was invalid,2 the cases came...

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