Tommy's Elbow Room, Inc. v. Kavorkian

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

In Kavorkian v. Tommy’s Elbow Room, 694 P.2d 160 (Alaska 1985) (Kavorkian I), 1 this court upheld the superior court’s decision to give a standard proximate cause jury instruction over plaintiffs’ (collectively referred to as “Kavorkian”) objection. We did not reach the issues raised on cross-appeal because of that outcome. Kavorkian’s subsequent petition for rehearing on the proximate cause issue was granted. In Kavorkian v. Tommy’s Elbow Room, 711 P.2d 521 (Alaska 1985) (Kavorkian II), we held that if the tortfeasor’s intoxication is a proximate cause of the…