The Alaska Supreme Court has reversed a Superior Court's dismissal of a lawsuit against an Anchorage bar over a stabbing death nine years ago, sending it back to the lower court for further proceedings.
The Anchorage Daily News reports the high court's 3-2 decision Friday holds that the victim's father, onetime political activist Uwe Kalenka, should be allowed to pursue his lawsuit against Chilkoot Charlie's.
Kalenka had argued that Chilkoot's improperly continued to serve alcohol to the man who killed his son, Eric, after the man was drunk.
The Chilkoot's patron, Jack Elias Morrell, was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2004 stabbing death of Eric Kalenka after a fight at the drive-through lane of a Taco Bell. Morrell is due to be released from a Colorado prison 2038.