Court Opinion

ID: 9541114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:22:53.19366+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:35.820247
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RABINOWITZ, Justice
(dissenting in part).
In dissenting in Bachner v. Pearson, 432 P.2d 525, 528-533 (Alaska 1967), I concluded that the trial court’s establishment-preclusion order, imposed as a sanction pursuant to Civil Rule 37(b) (2) (a), was unwarranted. Despite law of the case considerations, I am constrained to adhere to the views expressed in my dissent for I believe the court’s initial affirmance of this discovery sanction was manifestly erroneous.1 Now that the precise contours of this establishment-preclusion order have for the first time been definitively determined, by resort to the totality of the record and discovery policies, it appears that the due process issues which I considered incipient at the first appeal have fully materialized.2 I therefore dissent from that portion of the Bachner appeal which is bottomed on affirmance of the trial court’s establishment-preclusion order. I am in agreement with the extension of the doctrine of strict liability, as expounded in Clary v. Fifth Avenue Chrysler Center, Inc., 454 P.2d 244 (Alaska 1969), to leases in a commercial setting and am in further agreement with all other facets of the Bachner appeal. I am in full agreement, and join in, the court’s disposition of Pearson’s appeal.

. Patrick v. Sedwick, 413 P.2d 169, 173 (Alaska 1969); Watts v. Seward School Bd., 421 P.2d 586, 618 (Alaska 1968).

. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 78 S.Ct. 1087, 2 L.Ed.2d 1255 (1958); Hammond Packing Co. v. Arkansas, 212 U.S. 322, 29 S.Ct. 370, 53 L.Ed. 530 (1909); Hovey v. Elliot, 167 U.S. 409, 17 S.Ct. 841, 42 L.Ed. 215 (1897); Civ.R. 37(b) (1); Note of Advisory Committee on Rules to Rule 37, Eed.R.Civ.P.