Alaska Conservation Foundation v. Pebble Limited Partnership

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• holding that the legislature's change in the public interest litigation statute was intended to maintain the courts previous holdings regarding what constituted: \sufficient economic incentive\
• explaining that legislature abrogated and replaced common law public interest litigant exception to Rule 82 by enacting statutory constitutional claimant provision under AS 09.60.010
• holding that AS 09.60.010 controls attorney’s fees for constitutional claims
• stating that AS 09.60.010 “encourages and protects those challenging governmental action as a violation of federal or state constitutional rights”
• noting that AS 09.60.010 was “enacted to abrogate our previous common law public interest litigation attorney’s fees framework and replace it with a narrower constitutional litigation framework”
• outlining history of public interest exception

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