Pletcher, Weinig & Fisher

	Email: richard@akinsurancedefense.com Background and Experience I have been an active trial attorney in Anchorage since 1971. Between 1973 and 1982, I was an attorney with the former Greater Anchorage Area Borough and Municipality of Anchorage, handling all eminent domain work for each between 1973 and 1980, as well as much construction litigation. My first job was condemning land for a 12 mile long green belt along a canoeing stream in Anchorage from the mountains to the sea. I helped draft many of the zoning and environmental regulatory measures for these fledgling Alaska local governments and also prosecuted for two years. Since 1982, I have been associated in trial practice with John Pletcher and have been largely engaged in insurance tort defense. Defense scenarios have ranged from a cannery fire in the Aleutian Islands, to a flight seeing tour crashing into Mt. McKinley, to preparation of defense before an Eskimo jury of a house fire in Pt. Barrow which killed four small Eskimo children. Education University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, 1971, J.D. Law Review: Hastings Law Review, 1969 – 1971 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1962, B.A. Major: Political Science Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1962 – 1965 Graduate Studies in Soviet Military Doctrine Admitted Alaska, 1971 U.S. District Court District of Alaska, 1971 U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1971 U.S. Supreme Court, 1979 Published Works "Collateral Estoppel: The Extent to Which Decisions of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board and Municipal County Board Bend Each Other", 21 Hastings Law Review 763, 1970. Representative Cases U.S. v. Clarke, 1980, U.S. Supreme Court, 1006 U.S. 1127 (Inverse Condemnation / Indian Allotment) U.S. v. Clark, 1977, 9th Circuit, 590 F.2d 765 (Inverse Condemnation / Indian Allotment) Harrison v. Hickel, 1993, 9th Circuit, 6 F.3rd 1347 (Indian allotee may not sue State in Federal Court) Halo v. Anchorage, Alaska 1996, 927 P.2d 728 (Municipal Gerrymandering) Matomco Oil Co. v. Arctic Mechinical, Alaska 1990, 796 P.2d 1336 (Property subrogation; welding/tanker explosion) Greater Anchorage Area Borough v. 10 Acres, Alaska 1977, 563 P.2d 269 (Condemnation) Honors Who's Who in American Law Who's Who in the U.S. and the World Past Positions Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Associate, 1971 – 1973 Greater Anchorage Area Borough, Assistant Borough Attorney, 1973 – 1975 Municipality of Anchorage, Assistant Municipal Attorney, 1975 - 1982 Affiliations Alaska Supreme Court Rules Committee Concerning Condemnation Personal Activities Pistol and rifling shooting Canoeing and Kayaking (both river and ocean) Cross-country and Telemark skiing Mountain biking Born 1940, Durango, Colorado, USA
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