Helen Barton v. North Slope Borough School District

Summary

The court held that the superior court erred by excluding the plaintiff's landscape-architect expert testimony because the testimony could have appreciably assisted the jury under Alaska's liberal standard for expert evidence. The error was harmless because the proposed testimony largely overlapped with other evidence, the opposing party did not dispute the relevant runoff-distance standard, and the principal factual dispute concerned whether spectators were allowed too close to the field. The judgment for the school district was affirmed.