Kenai Peninsula Borough v. State

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, COMPTON, and MATTHEWS, JJ. RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

At issue in this appeal is the validity of the 1984 state legislative reapportionment plan which was promulgated in an attempt to comply with our decision in Carpenter v. Hammond, 667 P.2d 1204 (Alaska), appeal dismissed for want of substantial federal question, 464 U.S. 801, 104 S.Ct. 45, 78 L.Ed.2d 67 (1983). This appeal challenges the constitutionality of the plan’s realignment of Southeastern Alaska; the creation of House District 7, the North Kenai-South Anchorage District; and the creation of…