Alaska Supreme Court

Rodney S. Pederson, Appellant v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Appellee.

April 13, 2018421 P.3d 58

Summary

The court affirmed the rulings that the shareholder materially breached a valid and enforceable confidentiality agreement, that the superior court properly handled discovery and summary judgment, that trial properly proceeded after the shareholder left, and that disqualification was unwarranted. It vacated as moot the declaratory judgments concerning whether the shareholder had offered the list for sale or improperly used it under the shareholder-records statute. The court held that the corporation's delivery of confidential information, together with its forbearance from seeking other protective relief, supplied consideration for the agreement.