Tuttle v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding superior court acted within its discretion by considering separate property contributions when dividing marital property
• “[B]ias cannot ‘be inferred merely from adverse rulings.’ ” (quoting Kinnan v. Sitka Counseling, 349 P.3d 153, 160 (Alaska 2015))
• “We review de novo the question of whether a judge appears biased, which is assessed under an objective standard.” (quoting Mengisteab v. Oates, 425 P.3d 80, 85 (Alaska 2018))
• “Where the trial court makes these threshold findings, we generally will not reevaluate the merits of the property division.” (quoting Cartee v. Cartee, 239 P.3d 707, 713 (Alaska 2010))
• “[T]he trial court, not this court, judges the credibility of witnesses and weighs conflicting evidence.” (quoting Limeres v. Limeres, 320 P.3d 291, 296 (Alaska 2014) (internal quotation marks omitted))
• “[J]udicial bias may . . . arise during the course of judicial proceedings if ‘a judicial officer hears, learns, or does something intrajudicially so prejudicial that further participation would be unfair.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).