Legal Opinion
Turpin v. North Slope Borough
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 26, 1994No. S-4801PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RABINOWITZ, Justice.
The James Dalton Highway, also known as the North Slope Haul Road, runs approximately 425 miles from Livengood to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It is the only maintained land route linking central Alaska to the northern coast of Alaska. A substantial portion of the James Dalton Highway is located within the boundaries of the North Slope Borough (NSB).
The Acting State Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the United States Department of the Interior granted a right-of-way for the construction of the highway to the State of Alaska on May 2, 1974. The grant was…
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