Anchorage, Alaska
2 courts2 law libraries18+ judges1,758 opinions mention this place
Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is a consolidated city-borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 279,243 municipal residents in 2008 (359,180 residents within the Metropolitan Statistical Area), it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population; only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in the state's largest city. Anchorage has been named All-America City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/85, and 2002, by the National Civic League. It has also been named by Kiplinger as the most tax friendly city in the United States.
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Federal courts in Anchorage
- Alaska District CourtDistrict Court
- Alaska Bankruptcy CourtBankruptcy Court
Most-cited decisions from Anchorage courts
Ranked by citation influence (CAP PageRank).
- 46 F1D 485Ex parte Kie (1891)
- 46 F1D 452Haltern v. Emmons (1890)
- 50 F1D 65Lear v. United States (1892)
- 75 F1D 798Holden v. Williams (1896)
- 49 F1D 575United States v. La Ninfa (1891)
- 92 F1D 196The Canada (1899)
- 85 F1D 896Lewis v. Wells (1898)
- 73 F1D 308Decker v. Williams (1896)
- 99 F1D 334Corbus v. Alaska Treadwell Gold-Min. Co. (1899)
- 90 F1D 623Kohn v. McKinnon (1898)
- 46 F1D 633United States v. Clark (1891)
- 46 F1D 482Ex parte Martin (1890)
Opinions from Anchorage courts, by decade
Recent opinions from Anchorage courts
- 382 FSUPP3D 892United States v. Rodriguez (2019)
- 367 FSUPP3D 1011Triumvirate, LLC v. Bernhardt (2019)
- 381 FSUPP3D 1127Friends of Alaska Nat'l Wildlife Refuges v. Bernhardt (2019)
- 378 FSUPP3D 790United States v. Smith (2019)
- 373 FSUPP3D 1232Barron v. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (2019)
- 363 FSUPP3D 1013League of Conservation Voters v. Trump (2019)
- 357 FSUPP3D 916Alaska Logistics, LLC v. Newtok Vill. Council (2019)
- 367 FSUPP3D 996Crockett v. Nea-Alaska (2019)
- 287 FSUPP3D 756Anchorage Sch. Dist. v. Starr Indem. & Liab. Co. (2018)
- 326 FSUPP3D 912Lockner v. Swift Technical Servs., LLC (2018)
- 305 FSUPP3D 1019Peters v. Alaska Tr., LLC (2018)
- 313 FSUPP3D 976Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Zinke (2018)
Law libraries in Anchorage
Judges who served in Anchorage
Federal judges with an appointment to a court located here.
Aaron Christian Peterson
Andrew Jay Kleinfeld- Donald Macdonald
- Ellen A Carroll
- Gary A. Spraker
- Herbert A Ross
H[ezekiah] Russel Holland
James Arnold von der Heydt
James Keith Singleton Jr.
James Martin Fitzgerald- John D Roberts
John W. Sedwick
Joshua Michael Kindred
Ralph R. Beistline
Raymond Eugene Plummer
Sharon Louise Gleason
Timothy Mark Burgess
Walter Hartman Hodge
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Opinions mentioning Anchorage
- 98 F3D 447Duffy v. Riveland
- 96 F3D 434Ramsey v. Kantor
- 95 F3D 23Kesselring v. Arctic Hero
- 93 F3D 728Isbrandtsen Marine Services, Inc. v. M/V Inagua Tania
- 89 F3D 65096 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5232, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,539, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8469 Corporacion Mexicana De Servicios Maritimos, S.A. De C v. a Mexican Corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, Pemex-Refinacion, Plaintiff-In-Intervention-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. The M/t Respect, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., in Rem and Respect Shipping Private Limited, a Singapore Corporation and Trans Petrol Services N v. a Belgian Corporation, in Personam, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants
- 87 F3D 1338Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. v. Babbitt
- 80 F3D 1331Western Medical Consultants, Inc. v. Johnson
- 8 F3D 600Philips Medical Systems International B.V. v. Bruetman
- 79 F3D 903Heise v. Fishing Co. of Alaska, Inc.
- 79 F3D 139Pennsylvania State Education Ass'n-NEA v. National Labor Relations Board
- 75 F3D 449Alaska v. Babbitt
- 74 F3D 1216Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. v. DePuy-Motech, Inc.
- 72 F3D 698Alaska v. Babbitt
- 67 F3D 864Alaska v. Babbitt
- 62 F3D 404Alcabasa v. Korean Air Lines Co.
- 6 F3D 581United States v. Stone
- 6 F3D 1347Harrison v. Hickel
- 58 F3D 1200Whitted v. General Motors Corp.
- 57 F3D 819Resolution Trust Corp. v. Kennelly
- 55 F3D 1420St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. F.H.
- 55 F3D 1398Biggs v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
- 54 F3D 549Alaska v. Babbitt
- 53 F3D 225Corder v. Howard Johnson & Co.
- 52 F3D 213Providence Hospital of Toppenish v. Shalala
- 5 F3D 378Alaska Cargo Transport, Inc. v. Alaska Railroad
- 5 F3D 374Carlissa Churchill, Personal Administratrix of the Estate of Patrick Churchill, Deceased, and Dale Carlough v. The F/v Fjord
- 490 F3D 1149United States v. Hollis
- 486 F3D 638Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
- 484 F3D 907Bennett v. Southwest Airlines Co.
- 480 F3D 1181Winterrowd v. Nelson
- 479 F3D 1148Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
- 477 F3D 461Illinois One News, Inc. v. City of Marshall
- 476 F3D 781Scheuring v. Traylor Bros.
- 472 F3D 1097Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
- 470 F3D 827Doe ex rel. Doe v. Kamehameha Schools
- 470 F3D 1294United States v. Combs
- 465 F3D 412United States v. Mosley
- 463 F3D 1076Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Lockyer
- 458 F3D 705United States v. Cinergy Corp.
- 458 F3D 1212Bridge Capital Investors, II v. Susquehanna Radio Corp.
- 454 F3D 1177High Country Citizens Alliance v. Clarke
- 444 F3D 666Virgin Islands Telephone Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission
- 441 F3D 670Healthcare Employees Union, Local 399 v. National Labor Relations Board
- 423 F3D 1050Osborne v. District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District
- 422 F3D 840Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. National Education Ass'n
- 421 F3D 1152Johnston v. Roper
- 419 F3D 930Friendly House v. Napolitano
- 419 F3D 1008United States v. Massey
- 416 F3D 129Li Yong Zheng v. United States Department of Justice
- 413 F3D 1069Verizon California Inc. v. Peevey