Legal Opinion
Robison v. Francis
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided January 17, 1986No. S-493, S-510 and S-552PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
We hold in this case that Alaska’s local hire law, AS 36.10.010,1 which requires that work on public construction projects be performed almost entirely by Alaska residents, violates the privileges and immunities clause of article IV, § 2 of the United States Constitution.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SETTING
James Francis, a Montana resident, was employed in 1983 as an ironworker by Re-gan Steel & Supply, a sub-contractor on a North Pole High School project. When the Department of Labor discovered that Re-gan Steel had a work force of more than five percent non-residents…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Sugarman v. DougallSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by14 opinions
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