Glen Alsworth, Sr. and Lorene "sue" Anelon, Petitioners v. Victor Seybert, John Holman, Kimberly Williams, George…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction restricting two elected borough officials from using borough resources, taking certain official actions, and speaking about a mining project. It held that the superior court applied the wrong preliminary-injunction standard because the injunction imposed serious, noncompensable harms on the defendants, and that the speech restriction was an unconstitutional prior restraint under the Alaska Constitution. The court did not decide the defendants' legislative-immunity or indispensable-party arguments.