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RES. DEV. COUNCIL FOR ALASKA v. VOTE YES

Supreme Court Nos. S-17834 17843.

494 P.3d 541 (2021)

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL FOR ALASKA, INC.; Alaska Trucking Association, Inc.; Alaska Miners Association, Inc.; Associated General Contractors of Alaska; Alaska Chamber; and Alaska Support Industry Alliance, Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. VOTE YES FOR ALASKA'S FAIR SHARE, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. State of Alaska, Office of Lieutenant Governor, and Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer, in an official capacity; and Division of Elections, and Director Gail Fenumiai, in an official capacity, Appellees and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 3, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Singer and Lee C. Baxter , Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C., Anchorage, for Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Katherine Demarest and Margaret Paton Walsh , Assistant Attorneys General, Anchorage, and Kevin G. Clarkson , Attorney General, Juneau, for State of Alaska Appellees. Robin O. Brena and Jack S. Wakeland , Brena, Bell & Walker, P.C., Anchorage, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Vote Yes for Alaska's Fair Share.

Before: Bolger, Chief Justice, Winfree, Maassen, and Carney, Justices, and Matthews, Senior Justice. [Borghesan, Justice, not participating.]

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves a challenge to the lieutenant governor's decision that the sponsors of an initiative, "An Act changing the oil and gas production tax for certain fields, units, and nonunitized reservoirs on the North Slope," had collected enough signatures to allow the initiative to...

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