State, Department of Revenue v. Andrade

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• applying independent judgment standard of review when interpreting Alaska statutes and the Alaska Constitution
• explaining the canon of constitutional avoidance “recognizes that the legislature, like the courts, is pledged to support the state and federal constitutions and that the courts, therefore, should presume that the legislature sought to act within constitutional limits”
• explaining the canon of constitutional avoidance “recognizes that the legislature, like the courts, is pledged to support the state and federal constitutions and that the courts, therefore, should presume that the legislature sought to act within constitutional limits”
• “The party attacking a statute has the burden to ‘negative every conceivable basis which might support it.’ ” (quoting Katmailand, Inc. v. Lake & Peninsula Borough, 904 P.2d 397, 401 (Alaska 1995))
• questions of law reviewed de novo

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