State v. Native Village of Nunapitchuk

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• holding that Rule 82 does not violate due process by denying access to the courts because Rule 82(b)(3)(I) allows trial courts to consider “reduc[ing] awards that would (continued...
• explaining that \intertwined” fee-shifting provisions are substantive because \[t]hey are usually designed to encourage suits that, in the judgment of the legislature, will further public policy goals”
• providing the history of ch. 86, SLA 2003 (referred to as House Bill (H.B.) 145)
• \Our cases have recognized that the due process clause of the Alaska Constitution guarantees the right of access to Alaska's courts.\
• “The constitution . . . commits the enactment of all substantive law . . . to the legislature, acting by an affirmative vote of the majority of each house.” (citing Alaska Const. art. II, § 14)
• \Rule 82's primary purpose is to partially compensate a prevailing party.\

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