THOMAS v. BAILEY

No. 4204.

611 P.2d 536 (1980)

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, and Trustees For Alaska, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Wilson A. Rice, Anchorage, for appellees.

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


OPINION ON COSTS AND FEES

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

We are here confronted by another facet of one of Alaska's most litigated issues, the award of attorney's fees.1 Trustees for Alaska brought suit against Lowell Thomas, Lieutenant Governor for the State of Alaska, attacking the constitutionality of an initiative enacted by the voters as "The Alaska Homestead Act." After the superior court ruled that the initiative was invalid...

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