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The supreme court and the superior courts were established in the Alaska constitution, which took effect upon statehood in 1959. Later that year, the Alaska legislature created a district court for each judicial district and granted power to the supreme court to increase or decrease the number of district court judges. In 1980, to ease the ...
The United States District Court for the District of Alaska ... Valdez, Anchorage Alfred M. Post (1900-1901) Nathan V. Harlan (1901-1908) James J. Crossley (1908 ...
The Family Court was created by Part 2 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, merging the family law functions of the county courts and magistrates' courts into one. Two scenarios are covered by the Children Act of 1989: private law cases, where the applicant and respondent are usually the child's parents ; and public law cases, where the applicant ...
Feb. 23—The Anchorage Assembly has authorized its attorneys to take legal action in an ongoing disagreement with three Southcentral Alaska utilities over their draft plan to restore water flow ...
Date Person(s) Age Country of disappearance Circumstances Outcome Time spent missing or unconfirmed 2000 Zebb Quinn: 18 United States Zebb Quinn was an 18-year-old American male who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina.
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The Alaska Court of Appeals is an intermediate court of appeals for criminal cases in the State of Alaska's judicial department (Alaska Court System), created in 1980 by the Alaska Legislature as an additional appellate court to lessen the burden on the Alaska Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court had only one chief justice, Buell Nesbett, during its first decade of existence. Alaska voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1970, months after Nesbett's retirement, which set the current limits for chief justices, namely that they are allowed to serve three-year non-consecutive terms.