Legal Opinion
McCutcheon v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided November 13, 1987No. S-1528PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.
The principal question involved in this appeal is when the statute of limitations began to run for a libel action predicated upon allegedly defamatory affidavits filed pursuant to the dismissal of a criminal prosecution against plaintiff Jerry McCut-cheon. Defendant State of Alaska contends that the applicable two-year limitations period expired prior to the filing of McCutcheon’s complaint, and further that it is immune from the instant suit under the express statutory exception to the waiver of sovereign immunity for libel actions.1 McCutcheon claims that he…
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