Brooks Range Exploration Co. v. Gordon

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In a settlement agreement, Brooks Range Exploration Company, Inc. (BREXCO) agreed to transport Wallace Gordon's property to Anchorage, unless transporting it would violate state law. The superior court enforced this agreement without holding an evidentiary hearing, notwithstanding BREX-CO's assertion that transporting the property would violate the Alaska Historic Preservation Act (AHPA). Because there were genuine factual issues about whether transporting items found by Gordon would violate the AHPA, we hold as to the "found" items that it was error to…