Pipeliners Union 798, United Ass'n v. Alaska State Commission for Human Rights

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the superior court erred in entering a judgment to enforce a back pay order issued by the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights (“the Commission”) when an appeal of that order was pending before another superior court judge. We conclude that the two actions should have been consolidated; accordingly, we remand the case.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1976, several individuals filed administrative complaints with the Commission, alleging that the Pipeliners Union 798, United Association (“the Union”) had…