Court Opinion

ID: 9539656
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:07:59.968906+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:08.285239
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COMPTON, Justice,
concurring.
The doctrine of stare decisis requires me to concur in the court’s interpretation of AS 23.30.220. However, it does not require me to agree with the analysis proffered to support that interpretation.
I will not belabor my earlier disagreement with the court’s interpretation of AS 23.30.220, see Johnson v. RCA-OMS, Inc., 681 P.2d 905, 908 (Alaska 1984) (Compton, Justice, dissenting), but believe a couple of remarks are appropriate.
*802Neither State v. Gronroos, 697 P.2d 1047 (Alaska 1985), nor Deuser v. State, 697 P.2d 647 (Alaska 1985) explain, add to or expand upon the slight variance/substantial disparity analysis created to support the result in Johnson. They merely parrot it, as does the court in the case at bar. Though I must accept it, I remain unpersuaded by the Johnson analysis, which is used to justify the court’s wholesale departure from a statutory framework in which the preference is to determine wage basis on some arbitrary past employment period.1
The legislature is free to identify those changed employment circumstances which should receive exceptional treatment. If it chooses, it can return to actual weekly wages as the proper wage basis. It is not for this court to create exceptions, or in effect to resurrect repealed laws.

. The court declares that State v. Dupree, 664 P.2d 562 (Alaska 1983), is being now overruled. 714 P.2d 795 at 800, n. 7 (Alaska, 1986). Since neither Gronroos nor Deuser add anything to Johnson, I adhere to my dissent in Johnson in asserting that it overruled Dupree. The court’s belated recognition of the consequences of a decision is curious.