When Richard Brandon, a prisoner in the Alaska corrections system, commenced litigation against the State of Alaska in a civil action, he also filed a Prisoner Request for Filing Fee Exemption under AS 09.19.010 and a motion to waive the filing fee based on a constitutional challenge to the statute. The first superior court judge assigned to the case ordered Brandon to pay reduced filing fees and granted his motion for an extension of time, but did not mention his request for an outright exemption from paying the filing fees. Another judge later dismissed the case for failure to pay the reduced filing fees within the extension allowed by the first judge and denied Brandons motion for an outright exemption as impliedly denied by the first judges decision to reduce the fees.
