suggests a rule of interpretation contrary to AS 01.10.090. See Alaska Admin. R. Alaska R.App. P. 521. We note further that Black's Law Dictionary defines "statute" as "(al law passed by a legislative body; specif., legislation enacted by any lawmaking body, including legislatures, administrative boards, and municipal courts." BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY 1542-43 (Oth ed. 2009). Court rules fall comfortably within this definition. Finally, AS 01.10.090 appears to be little more than a codification of principle "deeply rooted in [American] jurisprudence." Landgraf, 511 U.S. at 265, 114 S.Ct. 1483. Accordingly, we will apply AS 01.10.090 to interpret Appellate Rule 106(b). 40 . Landgraf, 511 U.S. at 275, 114 S.Ct. 1483; see also Matanuska Maid, Inc. v. State, 620 P.2d 182, 187 (Alaska 1980) (<HOLDING>). 41 . 156 P.3d 389, 403-04 (Alaska 2007). 42 .
recognizing that a judge is not absolutely immune from criminal liability holding that prosecutors are absolutely immune from claims alleging conspiracy to present false testimony but witnesses including police officerwitnesses are not absolutely immune from such claims holding that mere procedural changes which do not affect substantive rights are not immune from retrospective application holding that procedural violations merely affect the weight of the evidence recognizing that the municipal function test is used to determine both whether municipalities are immune from suit and immune from running of statutes of limitations