State v. University of Alaska

How courts have described this case

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• holding that putting university lands into state park without compensation to the university was a breach of the trust
• noting that the Nebraska Constitution specifically provides for a method of management and disposal of school lands, while the Alaska Constitution “has left these determinations to the legislature”
• relying on Scott, The Law of Trusts (3 ed. 1967), and Bogert, The Law of Trusts and Trustees, (Rev.Ed. 1978) when protecting a federally created land trust
• noting Lassen II established applicability of private trust law to state land trusts
• noting Lassen II established applicability of private trust law to state land trusts
• lands held in trust for University must be used for exclusive benefit of University; they may not be set aside as parkland, where they would be used solely for recreational purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).