Lucier v. Steiner Corp.

93 P.3d 1052, 2004 Alas. LEXIS 87, 2004 WL 1576675

• Court: Alaska Supreme Court
• Decided: July 2, 2004
• Docket: S-11192
• Status: Published

Opinions

Order

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

1 . 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 petitioner 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.