Church v. State, Department of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that accurate distribution of PFDs is a legitimate state purpose supported by a statutory and regulatory scheme that bears a fair and substantial relationship to achieving that purpose
• holding that permanent fund dividends are economic interests entitled to mini-' mum protection
• holding that substantive due process claim will “only stand if the state’s actions ‘are so irrational or arbitrary, or so lacking in fairness, as to shock the universal sense of justice’ ” (quoting In re Obermeyer, 717 P.2d 382, 386-87 (Alaska 1986))
• holding summary adjudication satisfied procedural due process in appeal of PFD denial
• upholding a regulation restricting \allowable absences\ for purposes of determining a person's eligibility for the Permanent Fund dividend
• reviewing PFD denial that was based on claimant having spent more than 180 days out of state caring for dying relative

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