Travis Buntin v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Travis Buntin v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation
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18 later published cases cite this decision.
- Buntin v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2021)
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- Blythe P. v. State of Alaska, DHSS, OCS (Alaska 2023)
- Blake v. NCMIC Insurance Company (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2023)
- Chitwood v. Bacon (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2022)
- Kathryn Thomason v. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Senior and Disabilities Services (Alaska 2025)
- Deanna Smith v. State of Alaska, Department of Corrections (Alaska 2025)
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- Brett Talmadge v. State of Alaska (Alaska Ct. App. 2025)
- Martin C. Smith v. State of Alaska (Alaska Ct. App. 2024)
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- Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc. and The Williams Companies, Inc. v. State of Alaska, Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC, and Flint Hills Resources, LLC (Alaska 2023)
- Copeland v. Houser (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2023)
- AAA Concrete Construction, Inc. v. Richard Humphrey, Richard Humphrey v. Michael L. Mitchell and AAA Concrete Construction, Inc. (Alaska 2023)
- Morgan v. Walmart, Inc. (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2022)
- Faulkner Walsh Constructors v. National Casualty Company (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2022)
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Opinion
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, 2021 ) 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 Opinion No. 7521 issued on April 23, 2021, is WITHDRAWN.
2. Opinion No. 7535 is issued on June 11, 2021, 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 Case Nos. S-17309/17519 Order Reissuing Opinion June 11, 2021 Page 2 interpretation methodologies are, and, where they exist, or how binding they are. See Abbe R. Gluck, Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation: 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.
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