State v. Leach

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER, and FITZGERALD, JJ. RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Petitioner, State of Alaska, seeks review of a superior court order granting respondents’ motion for production of certain property appraisal reports made by petitioner’s experts.

Petitioner filed a condemnation action against property owned by respondent Leach. Prior to the filing of the discovery motion now questioned, the state had provided respondents with an appraisal report on the condemned property made by an appraiser whom the state intended to call as a witness at trial. The…