STATE v. FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH

Nos. S-2122, 2141.

736 P.2d 1140 (1987)

STATE of Alaska, William Sheffield, Governor of the State of Alaska, Marshall Lind, Commissioner of Education, Eleanor Andrews, Commissioner of Administration, Emil Notti, Commissioner of Community & Regional Affairs, Loren Lounsbury, Commissioner of Commerce & Economic Development, Milton Barker, Acting Commissioner of Revenue, all in their official capacities, Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH and Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Maynard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Grace Berg Schaible, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Mark Andrews, Asst. Borough Atty., Gordon W. Duval, Staff Atty., Paul H. Cragan, Borough Atty., Fairbanks, for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed on the opinion of the superior court, attached as appendix, except as noted hereafter. The traditional rule that judicial decisions should apply retroactively governs this case as the resolution of the issue presented was foreshadowed by prior opinions of the state attorney general, there has been no irremediable reliance on the statute in question, and inequity would result if only the appellees were to receive...

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