Simpson v. Murkowski

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that governor's letter proposing phased elimination of longevity bonuses was not actual promise because it was not \sufficiently definite\
• concluding that State’s positions in successive cases on whether residents had contractual rights to longevity bonuses were not in fact contradictory and it was therefore unnecessary to address judicial estoppel
• “[A] superior court’s order must contain specific findings of fact and conclusions of law to permit meaningful review by this court.”
• \[A] superior court's order must contain specific findings of fact and conclusions of law to permit meaningful review by this court.\
• “[U]nder the Alaska Constitution ‘it is the joint responsibility of the governor and the legislature to determine the State’s spending priorities . . . .’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).