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· 10/13/2000

Gwich'in Steering Committee v. State, Office of the Governor

Citations

  • 10 P.3d 572
  • 2000 Alas. LEXIS 98
  • 2000 WL 1516967

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that this court \narrowly construe[s]\ the deliberate process privilege, an exception to the Public Records Act
  • noting that where a party had a remedy under the law for minimum 11 wage violations, they could not pursue a claim for unjust enrichment
  • explaining that for a public official to invoke the deliberate process privilege, the official \must show as a threshold matter that the communication is both- ‘predecisional’ and ‘deliberative’ \
  • finding that a subsistence interest in caribou is insufficient to defeat public interest status
  • finding common law deliberative process privilege and applying it under public records act exception for “records required to be kept confidential by . . . state law”
  • finding common law deliberative process privilege and applying it under public records act exception for \records required to be kept confidential by ... state law\

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Judges: Matthews, Eastaugh, Fabe, Bryner, Carpeneti

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