International Seafoods of Alaska, Inc. v. Bissonette

OPINION

CARPENETI, Justice.

I. BACKGROUND

A group of commercial salmon fishers from the Egegik district of Bristol Bay sued International Seafoods of Alaska (ISA) alleging that ISA breached its contract by paying a lower price at the end of the season than it had earlier promised. A jury agreed. Because the superior court properly certified the group of fishers as a class, correctly rejected ISA's proposal to use a separate verdict form for each class member, correctly instructed the jury, did not abuse its discretion in imposing limited sanctions on absent class members who did not respond to…