Lucier v. Steiner Corp.

Alaska Supreme Court

Decided July 2, 2004

Alaska Supreme Court · decided 2004-07-02

Relies on Contento v. Alaska State Housing Authority

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Decided 2004-07-02

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¶1Order

¶2The petition for review, filed on 8/25/03 and granted on 10/21/03, is Dismissed as improvidently granted.1

¶3. In Contento v. Alaska State Housing Authority, 398 P.2d 1000, 1001 (Alaska 1965), this court stated in the context of a denial of a petition for review:

A denial of a petition for review of an interlocutory order does not mean that we either approve or disapprove of the order sought to be reviewed, but merely that we decline to pass judgment at all on the action of the trial court. Furthermore, denial of review signifies that the *1053petitioner has not convinced us that there is need for early consideration of a non-appeal-able order ....

This statement equally applies to cases such as the present where petitions for review are initially granted and then dismissed as improvidently granted.