Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Inc. v. State

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This action by the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC) against the Commissioner of Natural Resources and the Schnabel Lumber Company (Schnabel) involves constitutional and statutory challenges to a timber sale contract entered into between the Commissioner on the State’s behalf and Schnabel on August 2, 1979. The trial court found for the defendants on the merits and awarded Schnabel attorney’s fees against SEACC. SEACC appeals both rulings. We affirm on the merits but reverse the award of attorney’s fees.

On June 8,1979, pursuant to Alaska law,1 the…