Williams v. Zobel

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the summary judgment of the superior court which invalidated, as a matter of equal protection and the right of interstate migration, the permanent fund income distribution statute, AS 43.23.010- .100,1 passed in April, 1980, by the Alaska legislature.2 We reverse the superior court’s summary judgment as to the permanent fund distribution statute.

In so doing, we are ré-affirming our modification of the equal protection test which had traditionally been applied in the right-to-migrate context by this court.3 Before discussing the permanent…