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ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO. v. STATE

No. S-1064.

723 P.2d 1249 (1986)

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Arco Pipe Line Company, BP Alaska Inc., Exxon Corporation, Exxon Pipe Line Company, Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company and Sohio Pipe Line Company, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, Department of Revenue; Department of Administration; Mary A. Nordale, Commissioner of Revenue; and Eleanor Andrews, Commissioner of Administration, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.W. Bullion and Ralph I. Miller, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, Tex., Robert E. McManus, Atlantic Richfield Co., Dallas, Tex., William B. Rozell and John F. Clough III, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Juneau, Alaska, for appellants Atlantic Richfield Co. and Arco Pipe Line Co.

Terrence G. Perris, William H. Lutz and Howard J.C. Nicols, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, Richard H. Hahn, Standard Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio, Richard O. Gantz and Carl J.D. Bauman, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., Sohio Pipe Line Co. and BP Alaska Inc.

John F. Daum, Barton H. Thompson, Jr. and Richard B. Goetz, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., Barry L. Wertz and Janice L. Robertson, Exxon Company, U.S.A., Houston, Tex., Robert J. Mahoney, Hartig, Rhodes, Norman, Mahoney & Edwards, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants Exxon Corp. and Exxon Pipe Line Co.

Deborah Vogt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harold M. Brown, Atty. Gen., Juneau, Alaska, Jonathan K. Tillinghast, Birch, Horton, Bittner, Pestinger & Anderson, Juneau, Alaska, for appellees.

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

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

Several corporations, which were forced to pay an Alaskan oil and gas corporate income tax, challenge an award to the state of $4 million in attorney's fees and $534,000 in costs incurred in defending the constitutionality of the state oil and gas corporate income tax. We reverse and remand.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In Atlantic Richfield Co. v. State, 705 P.2d 418

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