COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COM'N v. POLUSHKIN

Nos. 4658, 4685, 4723, 4737 and 4780.

628 P.2d 6 (1981)

COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION of the State of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Ilarion POLUSHKIN, Howard Wickersham, Julia S. Bern, Clifford E. Gangestad, James Wickersham, Kiril Kutsev, Frederick Simpson, Andrew Nielsen, Steven Copeland, and Nikolai Yakunin, Respondents. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION of the State of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Simeon CHOCKNOCK and Doyel Roehl, Respondents. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION of the State of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Chris BOSKOFSKY, Katherine McGill, Ronald A. Fadaoff, and Natalie Simeonoff, Respondents. Antone BALLUTA, Sam Stepanoff, Joseph Brown, Sam Alexie and Elanor Nelson, Petitioners, v. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION of the State of Alaska, Respondents. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION of the State of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Louise K. BARTH, Roy Beaver, Frank Collins, Sozon I. Fefelov, Grigory Gostevskyh, Jack G. Gronholdt, Peter Gronholdt, Sr., Herman M. Haggren, Henry F. Kroll, II, John Lorentzen, Artemy Polushkin, Ivan Reutov, Serapion Reutov, Sergi Reutov, Simeon Reutov, Irven R. Rose, Mark L. Smith, James W. Stump, Donald A. Stump, Donald T. Stump, Thomas P. O'Hara, and Peter Togiak, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan K. Tillinghast, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for the State of Alaska, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.

John H. Bradbury, Bradbury, Bliss & Riordan, Anchorage, for Steven Copeland.

David B. Snyder, Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Dillingham, for Andrew Nielsen, Simeon Chocknock and the petitioners in No. 4737.

No appearances for other respondents.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

The issue in each of these consolidated cases is whether the right to peremptorily challenge a judge exists in an appeal to the superior court from a final administrative determination of the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. Petitioners, all of whom are parties to such appeals, attempted to peremptorily challenge the judge assigned to their particular cases. Although the challenges...

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