JOHNSON v. MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE

Court of Appeals No. A-12245.

475 P.3d 1128 (2020)

Michael Joseph JOHNSON, Appellant, v. MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

October 2, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew A. Michalski , Attorney at Law, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Sarah E. Stanley , Assistant Municipal Prosecutor, and William D. Falsey , Municipal Attorney, Anchorage, for the Appellee.

Before: Allard, Chief Judge, and Wollenberg and Harbison, Judges.


OPINION

The present appeal requires us to address whether a judge is disqualified from participating in a case if, before the judge's appointment to the bench, the judge appeared as a lawyer at a hearing in an earlier stage of the same case. As we explain in this opinion, we conclude that Alaska's judicial disqualification...

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