93 ABA Journal Alaska articles.
A former prosecutor who took over a lucrative trust practice from his father’s estate is now facing a second trial in one of the biggest alleged frauds in Alaska history.
…Feb 11, 2016 3:00 PM CST
An Alaska state court judge has vacated the convictions of four men in the 1997 murder of a Fairbanks teenager.
Three of the four men, known as the “Fairbanks Four,”…
Dec 21, 2015 5:15 PM CST
The Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended a public censure for a judge who apologized for inappropriate comments and said he has “quit going off script.”
The commission made…
Dec 14, 2015 5:51 AM CST
A Taiwanese woman who gave birth on Oct. 8 aboard a China Airlines flight to Los Angeles that was diverted to Alaska may have succeeded in what local media in…
Oct 23, 2015 2:00 PM CDT
An Alaska trapper said he filed a small claims suit against a Juneau woman for springing several of his lawfully set traps to teach her a lesson.
But after a…
Oct 16, 2015 3:40 PM CDT
The Alaska Constitution requires the appointment of counsel for an indigent parent in a child custody case when the opposing party is represented by a private lawyer, the American Bar…
Sep 11, 2015 2:47 PM CDT
A long-planned satellite campus of Seattle University School of Law is opening in Anchorage, Alaska, establishing the state’s first law school.
Available to law students throughout the country, the one-year…
Aug 24, 2015 6:30 AM CDT
Determining what constitutes “reasonable parental discipline” can be difficult, because this standard is vague, argued an Alaska mom famous for forcing an adopted child to consume hot sauce as a…
Aug 3, 2015 1:15 PM CDT
An Alaska judge is accused in an ethics complaint of making insensitive remarks, including statements about “temptresses” who are “asking for it.”
Judge Timothy Dooley of Nome is accused of…
May 27, 2015 7:15 AM CDT
A longtime prosecutor says she was fired Sunday by Alaska’s governor in a move that news reports suggest may be unprecedented.
No specifc reason was given by newly elected Gov.…
Feb 25, 2015 12:25 PM CST
Updated: An assistant district attorney in Barrow, Alaska, was shot and killed at his girlfriend’s home on Monday.
A suspect who formerly dated the woman is being held in the…
Dec 10, 2014 3:15 PM CST
Voters in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and the city of South Portland, Maine, voted to legalize recreational pot on Tuesday.
Those jurisdictions join Colorado and Washington state, which already allow…
Nov 5, 2014 8:10 AM CST
Barriers to same-sex marriages were removed by federal courts in three more states Friday.
Federal district judges struck bans in Arizona and Wyoming and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to…
Oct 17, 2014 5:25 PM CDT
A judge in Barrow, Alaska, is trying to make courtroom proceedings easier to understand for defendants who suffer brain damage caused by their mothers’ drinking during pregnancy.
Judge Michael Jeffery…
Jun 4, 2014 11:00 AM CDT
The inspector general for an economic development commission in Alaska has a money saving idea: His agency, he tells Congress, should be defunded.
Mike Marsh, the inspector general for the…
Sep 30, 2013 11:25 AM CDT
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