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    The Alaska Supreme Court is the state supreme court for the U.S. state of Alaska. Its decisions are binding on all other Alaska state courts, and the only...
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  • District Courts are the primary misdemeanor trial courts, the Alaska Superior Courts are the primary felony trial courts, and the Alaska Supreme Court and...
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  • justices of the Alaska Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had only one chief justice, Buell Nesbett, during its first decade of existence. Alaska voters approved...
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  • created in 1980 by the Alaska Legislature as an additional appellate court to lessen the burden on the Alaska Supreme Court. The court of appeals consists...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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    Anchorage Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuit. The party appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court, who upheld the lower court's decision, keeping Hafner...
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    The United States District Court for the District of Alaska (in case citations, D. Alaska) is a federal court that appeals to the Ninth Circuit (except...
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    Representatives and the Senate; and the judiciary consisting of the Supreme court and lower courts. Alaska has 246 federally recognized tribal governments and one...
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  • justice of the United States Supreme Court Alfred S. Moore (1846–1920), associate justice of the Alaska Territorial Supreme Court Andrew G. T. Moore II (1935–2018)...
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  • Peter J. Maassen (category Chief justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    1955) is an American lawyer who serves as the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. He was appointed in 2012. Maassen received a Bachelor of Arts from...
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  • Jennifer S. Henderson (category Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    from Alaska who has served as an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court since 2021. She was previously a judge of the Anchorage Superior Court from...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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    ticket. Alaska's court system has four levels: the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Court of Appeals, the superior courts and the district courts. The superior...
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    However, On July 25, 2008, Doe number two prevailed and the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act's registration violated...
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    Jay Rabinowitz (jurist) (category Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    2001) was an American lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court for four non-consecutive terms, remaining active as a justice from...
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    of Alaska. Also on June 28, 2019, Dunleavy vetoed $335,000 from the budget of the Alaska Supreme Court, stating that he did so because the Court had...
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  • Jude Pate (category Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    lawyer who serves as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge of the Sitka Superior Court from 2018 to 2023. Pate was born in...
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  • Courts of Alaska include: State courts of Alaska Alaska Supreme Court Alaska Court of Appeals Alaska Superior Court (4 districts containing 40 judgeships)...
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    Morgan Christen (category Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a state court judge on the Alaska Supreme Court from 2009 to 2012 and on the Alaska Superior...
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  • 114 years in prison. In 1999, the Alaska Supreme Court overturned Smithart's conviction, ruling that the lower court improperly denied his defense counsel...
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    Bold indicates chief judge or chief justice. The Ohio Supreme Court was created by the Ohio Constitution of 1802 with three judges, and had three or four...
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    States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Alaska Supreme Court. He worked as an attorney in private practice in Anchorage, Alaska, from 2000...
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  • Dario Borghesan (category Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court)
    an American lawyer from Alaska who is an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. Borghesan was born in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1979. He studied political...
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  • courts of Alabama United States District Court for the District of Alabama (extinct, subdivided in 1824) State courts of Alaska Alaska Supreme Court Alaska...
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  • In Alaska, a criminal conviction based on a nolo contendere plea may be used against the defendant in future civil actions. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled...
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    the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court and at the time the youngest chief justice of any U.S. state supreme court, died in Houston (at Cheri...
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  • or most cases. Alaska was one of only four states to make abortion legal between 1967 and 1970, a few years before the US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's...
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    nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill in the vacancy left by the death of Ruth...
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    Ravin ruling. Ravin v. State was a 1975 decision by the Alaska Supreme Court that held the Alaska Constitution's right to privacy protects an adult's ability...
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