Alaska Supreme Court, 1974

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment sustaining the South Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area against a taxpayer suit seeking its dissolution. It held that the essential ordinance and recording-district order were judicially noticeable despite the trial court's Civil Rule 43 procedural lapse, that…

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed Beatrice Risher's conviction for obtaining $11,650 by false pretenses from the Department of Health and Social Services and her maximum five-year sentence.

The court held that the appellees could use forcible detainer because their agent made a prudent inquiry into appellant's continued possession and the circumstances surrounding his quitclaim deed, making them bona fide purchasers without notice of his alleged fraud claim.

The Alaska Supreme Court dismissed McClain's appeal from four-year concurrent sentences for manufacturing and selling heroin imposed pursuant to negotiated guilty pleas, concluding after an independent review of the record that the sentencing court was not clearly mistaken.

The Alaska Supreme Court held that the state constitution guarantees a right to bail in all criminal prosecutions except capital offenses, that the Alaska Bail Reform Act provides a pre‑conviction right to bail but does not extend to probation‑revocation hearings, and that the 1967 amendments to the Act do not permit…