State Ex Rel. Departments of Transportation & Labor v. Enserch Alaska Construction, Inc.

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

This appeal involves the constitutionality of AS 36.10.160 which provides a hiring preference to residents of economically distressed zones for certain employment on public works projects. The superior court, Judge Douglas J. Serdahely, declared the law unconstitutional under Alaska’s equal protection clause. We affirm the superior court’s decision on the unconstitutionality of the regional preference law and its rulings concerning waiver, intervention, and standing. We reverse the superior court’s ruling on the right to seek damages for the state’s enforcement of the…