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Alaskans for a Common Language, Inc. v. Kritz

Citations

  • 170 P.3d 183
  • 2007 Alas. LEXIS 142
  • 2007 WL 3227583

How courts have described this case

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  • applying narrow construction to part of English-only law where supported by text and ballot initiative materials
  • applying Pickering and Connick to public employee speech, but not to elected official speech
  • \[C]ourts should if possible construe statutes so as to avoid the danger of unconstitutionality.\
  • \Both the federal and Alaska Constitutions look with disfavor on broad-based prior restraint rules....\
  • \[W]e may not read into a statute that which is not there ....\
  • \[W]e may not read into a statute that which is not there....\

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Judges: Bryner, Matthews, Eastaugh, Fabe, Carpeneti

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