Rush v. State, Department of Natural Resources

OPINION

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Mat-Su Resource Conservation and Development, a non-profit corporation, owns the buildings that make up the Big Lake Hatch ery and leases from the state the land under those buildings. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources plans to auction the land. It intends to run the auction according to the terms of AS 38.05.090 as that statute read when the corporation took on the lease, which will require any buyer of the land to also purchase the buildings from the corporation. The statute has since been amended. The appellant, Evelyn Rush, argues that the…