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explaining that law of the case doctrine, which prohibits reconsideration of issues that have been explicitly or inherently adjudicated in previous appeal, promotes judicial economy by "narrowing down the issues in successive stages of litigation"
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No. 325.
Argued March 26, 1968. Decided June 3, 1968.
421 P.2d 586, 423 P.2d 678, vacated and remanded.
George Kaufmann argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioners.
Theodore M. Pease, Jr., argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.
The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Alaska for further consideration in light of Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205, Will County, ante, p. 563.
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE BLACK joins, would reverse the judgment outright for the reasons stated by him in Pickering v. Board of Education, ante, p. 575.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE dissents.