Bill Wielechowski, Rick Halford, and Clem Tillion, Appellants v. State of Alaska and Alaska Permanent Fund…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for the State, holding that the 1976 constitutional amendment creating the Permanent Fund did not authorize the legislature to dedicate Permanent Fund income outside the ordinary appropriation process. The court also held that the governor validly reduced the legislatively authorized dividend transfer because the veto removed only language concerning the transfer amount and did not alter the appropriation's purpose. The court affirmed on an alternative ground from the superior court's analysis.