Friends of Willow Lake, Inc. v. State of Alaska, Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, Division Of…

Summary

The court held that Friends of Willow Lake had associational standing because its riparian members had sufficient economic, aesthetic, constitutional, and nuisance-related interests, and the organization satisfied the remaining associational-standing requirements. It affirmed that the Willow Lake Use Plan was not a regulation requiring formal administrative-procedure rulemaking, but vacated the ruling concerning federal inland-navigation rules because the record was insufficient and left the unaddressed federal aviation preemption claim for the superior court. The court also vacated the attorney-fee award and remanded for further proceedings.