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You can search the entire site. or go to the recent opinions, or the chronological or subject indices. Travis Buntin v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation (6/11/2021) sp-7535 ----------------------- Page 1----------------------- In the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska TRAVIS BUNTIN, ) ) Supreme Court Nos. S-17309/ 17519 Plaintiff, ) ) U.S. District Court No. 3:16-CV- v. ) 00073 (TMB) ) SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY ) ORDER CORPORATION, ) Withdraw and Reissue Opinion ) Defendant. ) June 11, 202 1 ) Before: Bolger, Chief Justice, Winfree, Maassen, Carney, and Borghesan, Justices Having considered Travis Buntin's Petition for Rehearing and Schlumberger Technology Corporation's response, IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Rehearing is GRANTED IN PART but otherwise DENIED, and: 1. Opinion No. 752 1 issued on April 23, 202 1, is WITHDRAWN. 2. Opinion No. 7535 is issued on June 11, 202 1, in its place, revising footnote 82 as follows: One question left open in today's decision is whether, in addition to being precluded from giving exemptions a narrow reading, Alaska courts are required to apply general federal rules of statutory interpretation methodologies in lieu of our "sliding scale approach, " see Mat-Su Valley Med. Ctr., LLC v. Bolinder, 427 P.3d 754, 763 (Alaska 2018), when deciding cases involving AWHA exemptions explicitly linked to federal interpretation, as white collar exemptions are. The parties did not brief or argue this issue, and we do not decide it today. We note, as some scholars have pointed out, that it is not entirely clear what the federal rules of statutory ----------------------- Page 2----------------------- Case Nos. S-17309/ 17519 Order Reissuing Opinion June 11, 202 1 Page 2 interpretation methodologies are, and, where they exist, or how binding they are. See Abbe R. Gluck, Intersystemic Statutory Interp retation: Methodology as "Law " and the Erie Doctrine, 120 YALE L. J. 1898, 1909-11 (2011) (noting that federal rules of statutory interpretation, with some notable exceptions, are largely unresolved). Entered by direction of the court. Clerk of the Appellate Courts /s/ ________________________ Meredith Montgomery cc: Supreme Court Justices Distribution: Daniel Pace Aaron D. Sperbeck Pace Law Offices Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot 10 1 E. Ninth, #7A 510 "L" Street, #700 Anchorage, AK 9950 1 Anchorage, AK 9950 1 Timothy W. Seaver Martin J. Regimbal Seaver & Wagner, LLC Jennifer D. Sims 500 "L" Street, #50 1 The Kullman Firm, P.L.C. Anchorage, AK 9950 1 119 Third Street S., #2 Columbus MS 3970 1 Kenneth Legacki Kenneth W. Legacki, PC Samuel Zurik, III 2207 Spenard Road, #209 Robert P. Lombardi Anchorage, AK 9950 1 Bryan Edward Bowdler The Kullman Firm, P.L.C. William J. Evans 1100 Poydras Street, # 1600 Sedor Wendlandt Evans & Filippi, LLC New Orleans, LA 70 163 500 "L" Street, #500 Anchorage, AK 9950 1
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