Legal Opinion
Libby v. Cramer
District Court, D. Alaska
Decided March 1, 1920No. 1898-APublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JENNINGS, District Judge.
An injunction in this case is prayed for on the ground that the act of the Alaska Legislature (chapter 29, Sess. Laws 1919), entitled “An act to impose a tax upon male persons in the territory of Alaska for school purposes, providing means for its collection, and declaring an emergency,” is unconstitutional.
Attacks on the acts of a Legislature as being unconstitutional do not meet with much favor in any event; but any assault by injunction- upon the act of a Legislature whose object and purpose is to raise revenue for the support of the government comes especially…
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- Matanuska-Susitna Borough v. King's Lake CampAlaska Supreme Court · 1968